Bayley Beach Park
Rowayton, Town of Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut

at Roton Point; located at Roton Avenue and Pine Point


Directions:

US 95 north to Exit 13; turn right onto Boston Post Road (Route 1); turn right onto Richards Avenue which flows into Rowayton Road; stay on Rowayton Road all the way to a left turn onto McKinley Street; turn right onto Roton Avenue; turn left onto Pine Point Road.  Turn right into the park entrance. 


Facilities:

tennis courts, playground, beach house, beach, baseball diamond


Trails:

10/29/2005.  Behind the baseball diamond there is a hill dominated by oak woods.  We made a short circular walk through the area.  Next door is a private beach that looked a lot fancier than this small public one. 


PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick Cooney, Sarah-David Rosenbaum, Rosemary Cooney

*  = plant blooming on date of field trip, 10/29/2005


Trees:
Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven)
Carya tomentosa (mockernut hickory)
Castanea dentata (American chestnut)
Catalpa sp. (catalpa)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Gleditsia triacanthos (honey locust)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Morus alba (white mulberry)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Pinus thunbergii (Japanese black pine)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Pyrus sp. (crab apple)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus palustris (pin oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)

Shrubs:
Baccharis halimifolia (groundsel bush)
Chimaphila maculata (striped wintergreen)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry)
Iva frutescens (marsh elder)
Ligustrum sp. (privet)
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Rosa carolina (pasture rose)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rosa rugosa (wrinkled rose)  planted
Taxus sp. (yew)
Vaccinium angustifolium (low bush blueberry)
Vaccinium pallidum (hillside blueberry)
Viburnum sp. (toothed, fuzzy leaved, obovate-leaved, red-berried viburnum)
Viburnum sp. (toothed, long elliptical with long point viburnum)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet) 
Clematis terniflora (sweet autumn clematis)
Euonymus fortunii (Fortune's euonymus)
Hedera helix (English ivy)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Wisteria sp. (wisteria)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Allium vineale (field garlic)
Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Aster linariifolius (stiff aster)     *
Aster spp. (aster)     *
Atriplex patula (orach)
Cichorium intybus (chicory)     *
Hemerocallis fulva (tawny day lily) planted
Hypericum venosum (rattle snake hawkweed)
Krigia biflora (two-flowered Cynthia)
Lactuca canadensis (wild lettuce)
Lespedeza sp. (bush clover)
Limonium carolinianum (sea lavender)
Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs)   
Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)     *
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)
Plantago major (common plantain)
Polygonum aviculare (doorweed) 
Rumex sp. (dock)
Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade)
Solidago bicolor (silverrod)
Solidago sempervirens (seaside goldenrod)     *
Solidago spp. (goldenrod)
Trifolium pratense (red clover)     *

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Grasses:
Eleusine indica (zipper grass)
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass)
Panicum virgatum (switch grass)
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)
Spartina patens (salt meadow cord grass)
(hort. grass, zebra grass)

 

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