Muhlenberg Botanic Club Field Trip to Conoy Park/Falmouth Boat Launch
Muhlenberg Botanic Club Field Trip
August 11, 2007
We walked trail through the woods upriver to second power cut (Large Corten Steel Pylons) then bushwhacked out to the river. Where we explored the diabase bedrock where it has been scoured and carved by the
Plants in BOLD are pictured
Acer negundo, Boxelder (fr)
Acer saccharinum, Silver Maple
Ailanthus altissima, *Tree-of-heaven, (fr)
Alopecurus sp, *Foxtail grass
Amaranthus sp, Pigweed (fl)
Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Common Ragweed (fl)
Ambrosia trifida, Giant Ragweed (fl)
Amorpha fruticosa, False-indigo (fr)
Andropogon girardii, Big blue-stem (fl)
Apios americana, Ground-nut, Wild-bean (fl)
Apocynum cannabianum, Indian hemp (fr)
Arctium minus, *Common Burdock (fl & fr)
Artemisia annua, *Annual wormwood
Artemisia vulgaris, *Mugwort
Asclepias incarnata, Swamp milkweed (fl)
Asclepias syriaca, Common Milkweed
Asimina triloba, Pawpaw
Avens sp,
Cannabis sativa, *Marijuana (one small plant growing out in the rocks)
Carya ovata, Shagbark Hickory
Celtis occidentalis, Hackberry
Cercis canadensis, Redbud
Cersium arvense, *Canada thstle (fr)
Chamacyce maculata, Spotted Spurge (fl)
Chamacyce nutans, Eye-bane (fl)
Chamaechrista fasciculata, Partridge-pea (fl)
Clematis species
Commelina communis, dayflower (fl)
Cyperus esculenta, Yellow nutsedge (fl)
Datura stramonium, *Jimsonweed (fl & fr)
Daucus carota, *Queen Anne's Lace
Desmodium canadense, Showy tick-trefoil (fl)
Dioscorea villosa, Wild Yam (fr)
Elymus hystrix, Bottlebrush grass (fr)
Erichtites hieraciifolia, fierweed, Pilewort (fl)
Erigeron philadelphicus, Common Fleabane (fl)
Eupatorium fistulosum, Joe-pye-weed (fl)
Eupatorium perfoliatum, Boneset (fl)
Eupatorium serotinum (fl)
Euphorbia corollata, Flowering spurge (fl)
Fraxinus sp., Ash Species
Helianthus divaricatus, Thin-leaved Sunflower (fl)
Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem Artichoke (fl)
Hibiscus laevis (H. millitaris), Halberd-leaved mallow (fl)
Humulus japonicus,*Japanese Hops (fl)
Ipomoea pandurata, Wild Sweet Potato (fl)
Justicia
Ligustrum sp, *Privet
Lindera benzoin, Spicebush (fr)
Lonicera japonica, * Japanese honeysuckle
Lythrum salicaria, *Purple loostrife (fl)
Melilotus officionalis, *Yellow sweet-clover (fl)
Menispermum canadense , Moonseed
Microstegium vimineum, *Japanese stilt grass
Mimulus ringens, Allegheny monkey-flower
Mollugo verticillata, Carpetweed (fl)
Monarda fistulosa, Wild Bergamot (fr)
Oenothrea biennis, Evening-primrose (fl)
Panicum virgatum, Switch grass (fr)
Phyla laceolata (Lippia lanceolata ) ,Fogfruit (fl)
Physocarpus opulifolius, Ninebark (fr)
Plantanus x acerifolia, *London Plane
Polygonum cuspidatum, *Japanese knotweed
Polygonum perfoliatum, *Mile-a-minute weed (fr)
Polygonum sp, Smartweed (fl)
Quercus bicolor, Swamp White Oak
Robinia pseudoacacia, Black Locust
Rubus phoenicolasius, *Wineberry
Rudbeckia laciniata, Green-headed Coneflower (fl)
Schrophularia marilandica, Eastern figwort, Carpenter's Square (fl)
Sicyos angulata, Bur cucumber (fl)
Silene alba (Lychnis alba), *White campion (fl)
Solanum nigrum, Black nightshade (fl-fr)
Solidago gigantea, Tall goldenrod (fl)
Staphylea trifolia, Baldderpod (fr)
Taraxacum officionale, *Dandelion (fl)
Toxicodendron radicans, Poison ivy (fr)
Ulmus rubra, Slippery Elm
Verbena hastata, Blue vervain (fl)
Verbena urticifolia, White vervain (fl)
Verbesina alternifolia, Wingsem (fl)
Vitus sp., Grape (fr)
Xanthium strumarium, Cocklebur, (fr)
Fred Habagger, Tim Draude, Mike and Jan Slater
Additional plants seen/identified:
Apocynum canabianum v. hypericifolium, prostrate Indian hemp (fr)
Cynanchum laeve (Ampelamus albidus), Smooth swallow-wort (fl)
Elymus canadense (fr)
Elymus villosa (fr)
Elymus virginicus (fr)
Heteranthera dubia (Zosterella dubia), Water Star Grass (fl)
Polygonatum biflorum var coomutatum (P. canaliculatum), Giant Solomon's-seal (fr)
Polygonum lapathifolium, (fl)
Polygonum pennsylvanicum, (fl)
Salix sp, a shrubby willow
Urtica sp, Nettle (fl) with a Quesionmark Caterpillar feeding on it.
*Introduced from outside eastern
(fl) seen in flower
(fr) seen in fruit
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