1)  Arctostaphylus uva-ursi                                                   ‘Vancouver Jade’            Kinnikinnick or Bearberry

• Broadleaf evergreen and creeping groundcover with circumpolar distribution in northern hemisphere often found growing in association with Pitch Pine
• If there were still bears on Cape Cod, it would be a favorite food source for them.
• This cultivar, ‘Vancouver Jade’ is growing in containers outside the Graham Visitor Center.

2)  Juniperus virginiana  ‘Blue Coast’                               Eastern Red Cedar

• A low growing, blue form of the Eastern Red Cedar
• Pioneer species found in mixed stands with Pitch Pine, reclaiming abandoned farms and grasslands
• Found growing under Pines in grid 36-4E, along nursery road

3)  Morella pensylvanica                Bayberry

• Berries boiled to extract sweet-smelling wax used to make clean-burning candles
• Found growing in dry open sites along with Bearberry, Eastern Red Cedar and Pitch Pine
• Mass growing in Oaks Collection in grid 43-B

4)  Pinus rigida                Pitch Pine

• Rigid cone scales and stiff needles, hence its Latin specific epithet
• Used during days of wooden ships due to its resistance to decay
• Several young specimens in our Pinetum, grid 37-4W

5)  Viburnum dentatum var. pubescens                Arrowwood

• Large deciduous shrub with fruit a food source for songbirds
• Common name refers to Native American use of straight young stems as arrow shafts
• Old specimens located in southeastern Viburnum bed, grid 24-4W

Reference: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/