Atlantic Double Dunes Preserve
Atlantic Avenue, Amagansett, Suffolk County, Long Isalnd, NY
The Nature Conservancy

Sheppard Dune Ecological Reserve for Educational and Scientific Use; Managed by the South Fork-Shelter Island Chapter; the Nature Conservancy. Fragile area, so open only with tour guide.

Directions:

From the war memorial at the intersection of Route 27/Main Street/Montauk Highway and Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett, go south on Atlantic Avenue for 0.9 of a mile.

History:

1983 -- $550,000 is raised toward land acquisitions at the Atlantic Double Dunes Preserve and a stewardship fund is started.

Habitats:

A continuation of the barrier beach system east on the South Fork, the double dunes area begins at Wiborg's in East Hampton Village.

PLANT LIST:
Patrick L. Cooney and Judith M. Fitzgerald
* = 9/15/02, date plant found in bloom

Trees:
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Pinus thunbergii (Japanese black pine)
Thuja occidentalis (arbor-vitae)

Shrubs:
Aronia sp. (chokeberry)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Myrica pensylvanica (bayberry)
Rosa rugosa (wrinkled rose)
Viburnum dentatum (arrowwood viburnum)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)
Artemisia stelleriana (dusty miller)
Cakile edentula (sea rocket)
Chenopodium album (pigweed)
Chrysopsis falcata (sickle-leaved golden aster) *
Cichorium intybus (chicory) *
Conyza canadensis (horseweed)
Euphorbia polygonifolia (seaside spurge)
Euthamia graminifolia (grass-leaved goldenrod)
Gnaphalium obtusifolium (sweet everlasting)*
Hudsonia tomentosa (beach heather)
Lepidium virginicum (poor man's pepper) *
Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)
Solidago sempervirens (seaside goldenrod) * soon
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)

Sedges:
Carex ovales type (ovales type sedge)

Grasses:
Ammophila breviligulata (beach pea)
Digitaria ischaemum (smooth crab grass)
Panicum virgatum (switch grass)
Phragmites australis (giant reedgrass)

Others:
reindeer lichen