Using the Vegetation Types Guide	Choose by Forest Group	Successional Development	Coarse Woody Debris and Snags	Glossary

Forest Groups Select A Group Cedar Forest Coastal Forest Floodplain Forest Highland Forest Intolerant Hardwood Forest Karst Forest Mixedwood Forest Old Field Forest Open Woodland Spruce Hemlock Forest Spruce Pine Forest Tolerant Hardwood Forest Wet Coniferous Forest Wet Deciduous Forest

Vegetation types (VTs) and their associated ecosite groups
(AC = Acadian, MB = Maritime Boreal)

VT Code	VT Name	AC	MB
CE1	Eastern white cedar / Speckled alder / Cinnamon fern / Sphagnum	X
CE1a	(Poison ivy variant)	X
CE2	Eastern white cedar - Balsam Fir / Stair-step moss	X
CO1	Black spruce - Balsam fir / Foxberry / Plume moss		X
CO2	White spruce - Balsam fir / Foxberry - Twinflower		X
CO2a	Black crowberry Headland variant		X
CO3	Red spruce / Mountain-ash / Foxberry		X
CO4	Balsam fir / Foxberry - Twinflower		X
CO5	White birch - Balsam fir / Foxberry - Wood aster		X
CO6	Red maple - Birch / Bunchberry - Sarsaparilla		X
CO7	White spruce / Bayberry		X
FP1	Sugar maple - White ash / Ostrich fern - Wood goldenrod	X
FP2	Red maple - Red oak / Bellwort - Nodding trillium	X
FP2a	Sugar maple variant	X
FP3	Red maple / Sensitive fern - Rough goldenrod	X
FP4	Balsam poplar - White spruce / Ostrich fern - Cow-parsnip	X
FP5	Black cherry - Red maple / Rough goldenrod - Jack-in-the-pulpit	X
FP6	White spruce / Wood goldenrod / Shaggy moss	X
HL1	Balsam fir / Mountain-ash / Large-leaved goldenrod		X
HL1a	White birch / Wood sorrel variant		X
HL2	White spruce / Wood aster		X
HL3	Yellow birch – Balsam fir / Eastern spreading wood fern – Wood sorrel		X
HL4	Birch / Wood fern – Wood sorrel		X
IH1	Large-tooth aspen / Lambkill / Bracken	X
IH1a	Red oak variant	X
IH2	Red oak – Red maple / Witch-hazel	X
IH2a	Red oak variant	X
IH3	Large-tooth aspen / Christmas fern – New York fern	X
IH4	Trembling aspen / Wild raisin / Bunchberry	X
IH5	Trembling aspen – White ash / Beaked hazelnut / Christmas fern	X
IH6	White birch – Red maple / Sarsaparilla – Bracken	X
IH6a	Aspen variant	X
IH7	Red maple / Hay-scented fern - Wood sorrel	X
KA1	Hemlock / Christmas fern – White lettuce – Wood goldenrod	X
KA2	Sugar maple / Christmas fern – Rattlesnake fern – Bulblet bladder fern	X
MW1	Red spruce – Yellow birch / Evergreen wood fern	X
MW2	Red spruce – Red maple – White birch / Goldthread	X
MW2a	Aspen variant	X
MW3	Hemlock – Yellow birch / Evergreen wood fern	X
MW4	Balsam fir – Red maple / Wood sorrel – Goldthread	X
MW5	White birch – Balsam fir / Starflower	X
OF1	White spruce / Aster – Goldenrod / Shaggy moss	X	X
OF2	Tamarack / Speckled alder / Rough goldenrod / Shaggy moss	X	X
OF3	White pine – Balsam fir / Shinleaf – Pine-sap	X
OF4	Balsam fir – White spruce / Evergreen wood fern – Wood aster	X	X
OF5	Trembling aspen – Grey birch / Rough goldenrod – Strawberry	X
OW1	Jack pine / Huckleberry / Black crowberry / Reindeer lichen	X	X
OW2	Black spruce / Lambkill / Reindeer lichen	X	X
OW3	Red spruce / Red-berried elder / Rock polypody	X
OW4	Red pine – White pine / Broom crowberry / Grey reindeer lichen	X
OW5	Red oak / Huckleberry / Cow-wheat – Rice grass / Reindeer lichen	X
OW6	White birch – Red oak – White ash / Marginal wood fern – Herb-Robert	X
SH1	Hemlock / Pin cushion moss / Needle carpet	X
SH2	Hemlock – White pine / Sarsaparilla	X
SH3	Red spruce – Hemlock / Wild lily-of-the-valley	X
SH4	Red spruce – White pine / Lambkill / Bracken	X
SH4a	Red spruce variant	X
SH5	Red spruce – Balsam fir / Schreber's moss	X
SH6	Red spruce – Balsam fir / Stair-step moss – Sphagnum	X
SH7	White spruce – Red spruce / Blueberry / Schreber's moss	X
SH8	Balsam fir / Wood fern / Schreber's moss	X
SH9	Balsam fir – Black spruce / Blueberry	X
SH10	White spruce – Balsam fir / Broom moss	X
SP1	Jack pine / Bracken – Teaberry	X	X
SP1a	Black spruce variant	X	X
SP2	Red pine / Blueberry / Bracken	X
SP2a	Black spruce variant	X
SP3	Red pine – White pine / Bracken – Mayflower	X
SP3a	Black spruce variant	X
SP4	White pine / Blueberry / Bracken	X	X
SP4a	Black spruce variant	X	X
SP4b	Huckleberry variant	X	X
SP5	Black spruce / Lambkill / Bracken	X	X
SP6	Black spruce – Red maple / Bracken – Sarsaparilla	X	X
SP7	Black spruce / False holly / Ladies' tresses sphagnum	X	X
SP8	Black spruce – Aspen / Bracken – Sarsaparilla	X
SP9	Red oak – White pine / Teaberry	X
SP10	Tamarack / Wild raisin / Schreber's moss	X
TH1	Sugar maple / Hay-scented fern	X
TH1a	Beech variant	X
TH1b	Yellow birch variant	X
TH2	Sugar maple / New York fern – Northern beech fern	X
TH2a	Yellow birch variant	X
TH3	Sugar maple – White ash / Christmas fern	X
TH4	Sugar maple – White ash / Silvery spleenwort – Baneberry	X
TH5	Beech / Sarsaparilla / Leaf litter	X
TH6	Red oak – Yellow birch / Striped maple	X
TH7	Yellow birch – White birch / Evergreen wood fern	X
TH8	Red maple – Yellow birch / Striped maple	X
TH8a	White ash variant	X
WC1	Black spruce / Cinnamon fern / Sphagnum	X	X
WC2	Black spruce / Lambkill – Labrador tea / Sphagnum	X	X
WC2a	Huckleberry – Inkberry variant	X	X
WC3	Jack pine – Black spruce / Rhodora / Sphagnum	X	X
WC3a	Black spruce variant	X	X
WC4	Red pine – Black spruce / Huckleberry – Rhodora / Sphagnum	X
WC5	Red spruce – Balsam fir / Cinnamon fern / Sphagnum	X	X
WC6	Balsam fir / Cinnamon fern – Three seeded sedge / Sphagnum	X	X
WC7	Tamarack – Black spruce / Lambkill / Sphagnum	X	X
WC7a	Huckleberry – Inkberry variant	X	X
WC8	Hemlock / Cinnamon fern – Sensitive fern / Sphagnum	X	X
WD1	White ash / Sensitive fern – Christmas fern	X
WD2	Red maple / Cinnamon fern / Sphagnum	X	X
WD3	Red maple / Sensitive fern – Lady fern / Sphagnum	X	X
WD4	Red maple / Poison ivy / Sphagnum	X	X
WD4a	Huckleberry – Inkberry variant	X	X
WD5	Trembling aspen / Beaked hazelnut / Interrupted fern / Sphagnum	X
WD6	Red maple – Balsam fir / Wood aster / Sphagnum	X	X
WD7	Balsam fir – White ash / Cinnamon fern – New York fern / Sphagnum	X
WD8	Hemlock / Cinnamon fern – Sensitive fern / Sphagnum	X