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Natural Features Inventory Western Schools Nature Area Summer (August) 2005 Inventoried by Jim Lieb, Master Gardener |
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Joe Pye Weed – Eupatorium sp. Maximillian Sunflower Purple Loothstrife Common Goldenrod – Soldago Common Cattail- Typha latifolia Dogwood sp. (Shrub type with white berries) Bugleweed Asters Rushes Sedges White Ash – Fraxinus Black Willow
Post 4 White Ash - Fraxinus Crab Apple Cottonwood - Populus deltoides Black Oak - Quercus nigra Red Maple - Acer
Post 5 Red Maple - Acer Trembling Aspen - Populus tremuloides Black Cherry - Prunus serotina Staghorn Sumac - Rhus
Post 6 Staghorn Sumac—Rhus Slippery Elm - Ulmus
Post 7 Poison Ivy Virginia Creeper (ubiquitous, on ground) Greenbrier White Oak - Quercus alba Black Cherry - Prunus serotina Black Willow
White Ash Post 8 (Marsh Culvert Area) Water Hemlock Trembling Aspen Ash - Fraxinus sp. Elderberry - Sambuscus Bugleweed Dogwood - Cornus sp. (shrub type with white berries) Iris (flag type) Solomon’s Seal
Overlook Area White Oak Black or Red Oak Black Cherry Red Maple Virginia Creeper Sassafrass
(Posts 9 and 10 are missing)
Post 11 White Oak Sensitive Fern— Onoclea sensibilis Wild Geranium Red Maple Shagbark Hickory Wild Grape Vine - Vitus sp.
Post 12 White,Red and Black Oaks Red Maple Virgiania Creeper (ubiquitous) Rue Anemone Trillium grandiflorum (a single plant by itself) Cinnamon Fern - Osmunda cinnamomea Jack-o-Lantern mushroom (1 single specimen)
Post 13 A notable single large American beech tree - Fagus grandifolia Sensitive Fern Wild Geranium Wood Ferns - Dryopteris or Anthryrium sps. Shagbark hickories American Linden (basswood) Oaks Jack- in-the-pulpit – Arisaema trifolium Cinnamon Fern Post 14 White Oak Shagbark Hickory Black Cherry Sensitive Fern Virginia Creeper (ubiquitous, on the ground) Poison ivy vine (huge, on an ash tree) Violets Jack-in-the-pulpit Ash Wild geraniums (ubiquitous)
Post 15 (By Stream) Shagbark hickory (large, with many sapling hickories) Oaks—black and white Along Stream - Skunk cabbage, Flag iris, bugleweed , sedges, Joe Pye weed – Eupatorium sp.
Post 16 White oaks (several, large) Cherry seedlings (many) Wild geraniums (ubiquitous)
Post 17 Shagbark hickory (large) White oaks (large) Cherry seedlings
(Post 18 is missing)
Post 19 Large dead tree (white oak?) lying on ground Red, Black and White Oaks Shagbark Hickory Violets Jack-in-the-pulpit Whorled pagonia
Post 20 White oaks (large) Ash Wild geraniums
Post 21 White oaks (several, large)
Post 22 (Stream at Culvert) (NOTE: post 22 is knocked over and hard to see.) Bugleweed Water Hemlock Joe Pye Weed, Arrowhead - Sagittarius sp. Asters Dogwood sp. (white berries); Stinging nettles Doder (parasitic vine) growing on bugleweed
Post 23 Old abandoned apple orchard Ash Cherry
Post 24 White pine — Pinus strobus
Post 25 Black spruce - Picea Ash trees surrounding the spruce
Post 26 Dead American Elms infected with Dutch Elm disease fungus Ash trees infested with European Ash Borer
(Post 27 and 28 are missing)
Post 29 Staghorn sumacs - Rhus Cottonwoods - Populus deltoides
(Post 30 is missing)
Post 31 (Kiebler’s Conifers) Canadian hemlocks Red Pine White Pine White Spruce Black Spruce Norway Pine Scotch Pine |
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