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  98.03.03: Technological Change in a Coastal New England Village, 1790-1990 The Duck Creek Harbor Site, Wellfleet, ...
The Atlas defines sandplain grasslands as “grassy areas dominated by the tussock-forming bunch grasses little bluestem (Schizachyrum scoparia), and poverty grass (Danthoria spicata).” These are found only in the Upper Cape towns of Bourne, Sandwich, Barnstable, and Falmouth.
Heathlands are “open areas dominated by dense, prostrate mats of bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), fl huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata), and either beach heath (Hudsonia tomentosa) or golden heather (H. ericoides).
These are found only in the towns of Eastham and Wellfleet, at the Coast Guard Beach area and the Marconi Beach/Wildlife Management areas, respectively.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1998/3/98.03.03.x.html   (9833 words)

  
 Cape Cod 7 - Across the Cape
This upland also produced Cladonia lichens, poverty-grass, savory-leaved aster (Diplopappus linariifolius), mouse-ear, bearberry, etc. On a few hillsides the savory-leaved aster and mouse-ear alone made quite a dense sward, said to be very pretty when the aster is in bloom.
In some parts the two species of poverty-grass (Hudsonia tomentosa and ericoides), which deserve a better name, reign for miles in little hemispherical tufts or islets, like moss, scattered over the waste.
They linger in bloom there till the middle of July.
thoreau.eserver.org /capecd07.html   (5577 words)

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