Hope Island - Narragansett Bay, RI

Flora (Plant Life)

The vegetation is primarily early successional, resulting from the Department of Environmental Management's practice of periodically burning large areas of the island. Much of the northern end of Hope Island is predominantly vegetated by grasses.

Many other areas have low shrubs: bayberry, rose, blackberry and poison ivy. The central part of the island contains tall shrubs and sapling trees, including red cedar, staghorn sumac, shadbush, black cherry and black willow. A single strand of black locust occupies a low hill on the northern part of the island.

Hope Island

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