Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbs, Rushes, Sedges, Grasses, Ferns & Fern Allies
Berkshire Valley Wildlife Management Area: Route 15 southJefferson &
Roxbury Townships, Morris County, New Jersey ( Website )
PLANT LIST :Dr. Patrick L. Cooney
* = plants blooming on date of the field trip, 04/16/2005
Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple)
*Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven)
Amelanchier sp. (shadbush)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)
Carya sp. (hickory)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus prinus (chestnut oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)
Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepper bush)
Comptonia peregrina (sweetfern)
Cornus amomum (silky dogwood)
Corylus sp. (hazel)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Forsythia sp. (golden bells)
*Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
*Lonicera morrowii (Morrow’s honeysuckle)
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Myrica pensylvanica (northern bayberry)
Rhus sp. (sumac)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)
Salix discolor (pussy willow)
*Salix sp. (willow)
*Spiraea alba var. latifolia (meadowsweet)
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)
Vaccinium sp. (hillside or low bush blueberry)
Vines:
Dioscorea villosa (wild yam root)
Smilax sp. (greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis sp. (grape)
Herbs:
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Apocynum cannabinum (Indian hemp)
Arctium sp. (burdock)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed)
Cirsium sp. (thistle)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne’s lace)
Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bushclover)
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)
Potentilla sp. (cinquefoil)
Proserpinaca palustris (common mermaidweed)
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Tussilago farfara (coltsfoot)
*Rushes:
Juncus effusus (soft rush)
Sedges:
Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)
Carex stricta (tussock sedge)
Grasses:
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)
Ferns and Fern Allies:
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern )
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