FAIRCHILD WILDFLOWER GARDEN

Fairfield County, Connecticut

Directions:

The Audubon Fairchild Garden is on North Porchuck Road in Greenwich. Round Hill Road exit off the Merritt Parkway, go north and turn immediately left onto North Porchuck Road and continue for about a mile and a half and look for the Garden on your left. There is a small parking lot.

PLANT LIST:
Carol Levine

Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Amelanchier arborea (common shadbush)
Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Fraxinus americana (American ash)
Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tuliptree)6/22/96
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)
Ulmus rubra (slippery elm)

Shrubs:
Alnus serrulata (smooth alder)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepperbush)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Ilex verticillata (winterberry)
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)
Ligustrum vulgaris (common privet)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Rhododendron periclymenoides (pinxter flower)
Rhododendron viscosum (swamp azalea)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)
Vaccinium angustifolium (low bush blueberry)
Viburnum acerifolium (maple leaf viburnum)
Vitis labrusca (fox grape)

Vines:
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut)
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet) 6/11/96
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Allium tricoccum (wild leek)
Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla)
Arctium sp. (burdock)
Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the pulpit)
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)
Aster divaricatus (white wood aster)
Cardamine pratensis
Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh)
Cerastium vulgatum (mouse-ear chickweed)
Dianthus armeria (Deptford pink)
Galium aparine (cleavers)
Galium mollugo (wild madder)
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium)
Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket)
Impatiens capensis (jewelweed)
Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag)
Laportea canadensis (wood nettle)
Lemna sp. (duckweed)
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)
Nuphar odorata (fragrant white water lily)
Pedicularis canadensis (lousewort)
Pilea pumila (clearweed)
Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple)
Polygonatum biflorum (true Solomon's seal)
Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil)
Prenanthes altissima (tall white lettuce)
Ranunculus abortivus (kidney-leaf buttercup)
Ranunculus acris (tall buttercup)
Rumex obtusifolius (broad-leaved dock)
Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot)
Senecio aureus (ragwort)
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)
Thalictrum pubescens (tall meadow-rue)
Trifolium repens (white clover)
Trifolium pratense (red clover)
Veratrum viride (false hellebore)
Viola cucullata (marsh blue violet)

Rushes and Sedges:
Carex atherodes (sedge)
Carex laxiflora (loose-flowered sedge)
Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)
Carex stipata
Carex stricta (tussock sedge)
Carex vulpinoidea (sedge)
Juncus effusus (soft rush)
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Grasses:
Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal grass)
Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stilt grass)
Poa compressa (Canada bluegrass)

Ferns:
Athyrium filix-femina v. (red stiped lady fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (hay-scented fern)
Pteridium aquilinum (bracken fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda claytoniana (interrupted fern)
Osmunda regalis (royal fern)

AUDUBON FAIRCHILD WILDFLOWER GARDENS. May 26, 2001.

In the midst of a drenching rain, hardy members of the Connecticut Botanical Society and the Torrey Botanical society set out to identify wildflowers through the drops of rain. This was a challenge but eventually the rain let up and we were able to continue for the next two and a half hours.

Along the entry path we found one remaining clump of Pedicularis canadensis. Turning to the pond we found Iris pseudacorus and Myosotis scorpioides. Nuphar odorata was growing on the pond. We entered the wet meadow area and found many species of the genus Carex such as C. crinita, C. pensylvanica, C. stipata, and C. stricta, and what looked to be C. aterodes, but I would like to have this confirmed. Also in the wet meadow were large patches of Cardamine pratensis, Geranium maculatum, and Senecio aureus. We also saw many ferns such as Osmunda cinnamomea, O. claytoniana, and O. regalis and Onoclea sensibilis. We then turned down the woodland paths and saw a lot of Allium tricoccum, Aralia nudicaulis, Arisaema triphyllum, Caulophyllum thalictroides, Mitchella repens, and Podophyllum peltatum. Unfortunately, we saw plenty of Alliaria petiolata, Berberis thunbergii and Microstegium vimineum. We followed the trail down to the Byram River and on the way we saw Maianthemum canadense, Thalictrum pubescens, Rhododendron periclymenoides. There was a large amount of the grass Anthoxanthum odoratum, and there were the woodland ferns Athyrium filix-femina and A. thelypteroides, Polystichum acrostichoides, and Thelypteris noveboracensis.

The rain held off as we struggled back through ankle-deep water on some of the paths and we drove over to the Audubon Center and had a picnic lunch. A good day after all.

Total attendance was 13. The trip leader was Carol Levine.

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