Greenwich Land Trust Nature Preserve
Weaver Street, Greenwich, Fairfield County, CT

Directions:

I-287 east to the Merritt Parkway; get off at the first exit on the Merritt Parkway, exit 27; turn left onto King Street; turn right onto Glen Ridge Road; follow it as it changes to Glenville Road; at 0.7 of a mile turn right onto Pemberwick Road; at 2.0 miles you reach Pemberwick park on the left; at the southern end of Pemberwick Park turn left onto Moshier Street; drive to a T-intersection with Weaver Street; turn left and almost immediately park on the right at a pull-off across from the house at #104 Weaver Street.

Habitats:

This is a pond/swamp/marsh area.

Description:

This is a small piece of land sandwiched between two houses on Weaver Street. The place has experienced a lot of dumping (in spite of the sign declaring a fine of $100 for dumping). The short access trail along the pond area has been greatly overgrown with a mixture of greenbrier, Morrow's honeysuckle, Japanese barberry and Asiatic bittersweet.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney, March 19, 2002 (* = blooming)

Trees:
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple) *
Carya cordiformis (pignut hickory)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Pseudotsuga menziessii (Douglas fir)?
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)

Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Ilex verticillata (winterberry holly)
Ligustrum sp. (privet )
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs:
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Allium vineale (field garlic)
Artemesia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Crocus sp. (purple crocus) *
Narcissus sp. (daffodil)
Sedum sp. (sedum)

Rushes:
Juncus effusus (soft rush)

Grasses:
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)

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