New Fairfield Land Trust: Hahlawah Preserve

Ball Pond Road East, New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Directions:

Located on Ball Pond Road at the intersection with Weldon Woods Road.

US 84 east to exit 5; turn left onto Route 39;  turn right onto Gillotti Road (still Rt. 39); turn left onto Ball Pond Road East; drive 0.6 of a mile to the intersection with Weldon Woods Road; turn right and park on the left side of the road (by another NFLT parcel of land). 

Trails: 

7/21/2005.  On a warm early morning, dog Sonar and I visited this small park along the shore of Ball Pond.  The park is partly manicured, partly wild and partly run over by invasive species.  (Someone should come in and cut back, if not eliminate, the Asiatic bittersweet and multiflora rose.  For such a small place there is a lot of intertwining trails (and even one small section of boardwalk).  The pond is very build up, with public space very limited.  On the other side of the pond they have a very small sandy public beach.    I enjoyed the preserve even though it did not take long to walk the trails.  Dr. Patrick L. Cooney.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

* = plants blooming on date of field trip, 7/21/2005.  

Trees:
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Amelanchier sp. (shadbush)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Juglans nigra (black walnut)   ?
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Morus alba (white mulberry)
Picea sp. (spruce)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Pyrus sp. (apple)
Quercus rubra (red oak)  
Salix sp. (willow)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)
Ulmus americana (American elm)

Shrubs and sub-shrubs:
Alnus serrulata (smooth alder)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Callicarpa sp. (beauty berry)  planted
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Decodon verticillatus (swamp loosestrife)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Ligustrum sp. (privet)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle) 
Rhus glabra (smooth sumac)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)
Salix sp. (willow)
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry) planted
Viburnum dentatum (smooth arrowwood viburnum)
Viburnum opulus (highbush cranberry viburnum)
Viburnum plicatum (double-file viburnum)

Vines:
Apios americana (groundnut)
Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed)    
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)    
Vitis spp. (fox grape)

Herbs:
Agrimonia gryposepala (common agrimony)     *
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)     *
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed)
Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the pulpit) 
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Boehmeria cylindrica (false nettle)     *
Cichorium intybus (chicory)     *
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)    *
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)     *
Coronilla varia (crown vetch)     *
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)     *
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane)     *
Euthamia graminifolia (grass-leaved goldenrod)
Galium aparine (cleavers)
Galium mollugo (wild madder)     *
Geranium robertianum (herb Robert)     *
Geum canadense (white avens)     *
Hypericum perforatum (common St. Johnswort)     *
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed)     *
Lactuca canadensis (wild lettuce) 
Lapsana communis (nipplewort)     *
Lotus corniculatus (birdfoot trefoil)     *
Lysimachia ciliata (fringed loosestrife)    *
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)     *
Medicago lupulina (black medick)     *
Melilotus alba (white sweet clover)     *
Nuphar variegata (spatterdock)     *
Oxalis sp. (yellow sweet clover)     *
Pilea pumila (clearweed)     *
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)     *
Plantago major (common plantain)
Pontederia cordata (pickerelweed)     *
Prenanthes altissima (tall white lettuce)
Prunella vulgaris (self-heal)     *
Ranunculus acris (tall buttercup)     *
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima (black-eyed Susan)     *
Rumex crispus (curled dock)
Rumex obtusifolius (broad dock)
Scutellaria galericulata (marsh skullcap)     *
Smilacina racemosa (false Solomon's seal)
Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade)     *
Solidago canadensis var. scabra (tall goldenrod)
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)     *
Trifolium pratense (white clover)     *
Trifolium repens (red clover)     *
Tussilago farfara (coltsfoot)

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Sedges:
Carex vulpinoidea (fox sedge)
Scirpus atrovirens (dark green bulrush)

Grasses:
Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal grass)
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Equisetum arvense (field horsetail)
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda regalis (royal fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)

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