Barrett Park
Newfield Avenue & Burdick Street, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Directions:

US-95 north to Exit 35; turn right onto High Ridge Road (Route 137);  turn left onto Vine Road; at the T-intersection, turn right onto Newfield Avenue; turn left onto Francis Avenue; turn right onto Upland Road; turn right onto the one-way Burdick Street; about half-way down the street turn right into the parking area for the park on the left.

Facilities:

Baseball field, basketball, playground & picnic pavilion

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney
* = plant blooming on date of field trip 10/10/2005

Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharinum (silver maple)
Carya cordiformis (bitternut hickory)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum)
Quercus palustris (pin oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Thuja occidentalis (arbor-vitae)
Ulmus americana (American elm)

Shrubs:
Forsythia sp. (golden bells) rose)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet) 
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)

Herbs:
Commelina communis (Asiatic day flower)     *
Plantago major (common plantain)
Trifolium repens (white clover)     *

Grasses:
Digitaria sp. (crab grass)

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

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