Huckleberry Island
Lake George, New York

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney, * = blooming on the date of the field trip, 7/28/04 with Philip and John Duckett

Trees:
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Amelanchier arborea (shadbush)
Betula papyrifera (paper birch)
Pinus rigida (pitch pine)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Thuja occidentalis (arbor vitae)
Ulmus americana (American elm)

Shrubs:
Alnus serrulata (smooth alder)
Diervilla lonicera (bush honeysuckle)
Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Myrica gale (sweet gale)
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac)
Rosa rugosa (wrinkle rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus sp. (dewberry) lots
Vaccinium angustifolium (low bush blueberry)

Herbs:
Antennaria sp. (pussytoes)
Aralia hispida (bristly sarsaparilla)
Campanula rotundifolia (harebell) *
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle) *
Corydalis sempervirens (pale corydalis) *
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace) *
Epipactis helleborine (helleborine orchid) * waning
Fragaria virginiana (strawberry)
Lycopus sp. (bugleweed) *
Lycopus virginicus (Virginia bugleweed) *
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)
Potentilla norvegica (rough cinquefoil) *
Potentilla recta (rough-fruited cinquefoil) *
Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil)
Scutellaria lateriflora (mad-dog skullcap) *
Smilacina racemosa (false Solomon's seal)
Solidago juncea (early goldenrod) *
Thalictrum pubescens (tall meadowrue)
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)
Veronica officinalis (common speedwell)

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Grasses:
Deschampsia flexuosa (hair grass)
Schizachyrium scoparium (little blue stem grass)
 

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Dryopteris marginalis (marginal woodfern)
Polypodium sp. (rock cap fern)

Others:
reindeer lichen
rock tripe lichen

A Few of the Islands and Mountain Trails of Lake George

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