Daniel R. Davies Sanctuary
Coram, Long Island, NY
57 acres

Directions:

From the Long Island Expressway (US 495) get off at exit 64 north; drive on NY 112 north for 3.4 miles to Coram; turn right (east) onto NY 25 (Middle Country Road); drive 0.2 of a mile and turn left (north) onto Mt. Sinai-Coram Road; drive 0.1 of a mile and turn into the sanctuary driveway on the left (at #16); bear right and drive through the gate to the parking area.

History:

Owned by The Nature Sanctuary. The Davies family donated much of the land for the sanctuary.

An adjacent field was used as a militia training field in the War of 1812.

(Source: Geffen and Berglie, 1996: Chapter 18)

PLANT LIST:

Trees:
Pinus rigida (pitch pine)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus prinoides (chinquapin oak)
Quercus prinus (chestnut oak)
(dwarf chinquapin)?

Shrubs and sub-shrubs:
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (bearberry)
Epigaea repens (trailing arbutus)
Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry)
Quercus ilicifolia (scrub oak)
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)
Vaccinium sp. (a lowbush blueberry)

Herbs:
Asclepias sp. (milkweed)
Asclepias tuberosa (orange butterflyweed)
Cypripedium acaule (pink lady's slipper)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)
Pedicularis canadensis (wood betony)