PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

* = plants blooming on date of field trip, 7/30/2005.  

Trees:
Acer negundo. (ash-leaf maple)
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)   
Acer platanoides var. (copper Norway maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Aesculus hippocastanum (horse chestnut) 
Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven) 
Betula lenta (black birch)
Catalpa sp. (catalpa) 
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Gleditsia triacanthos (honey locust)   
Juglans nigra (black walnut) 
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Morus alba (white mulberry) 
Picea pungens (spruce)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore) 
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Pyrus sp. (crab apple) 
Quercus alba (white oak) 
Quercus rubra (red oak)  
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust)
Tilia americana (America basswood)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)
Ulmus americana (American elm)

Shrubs and sub-shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Chimaphila maculata (striped wintergreen)   
Cornus kousa (kousa dogwood) 
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive) 
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus) 
Forsythia sp. (golden bells) 
Hibiscus syriacus (rose-of-Sharon)     * 
Ligustrum sp. (privet) 
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Pachysandra terminalis (pachysandra) 
Rhododendron maximum (rosebay rhododendron) 
Rhus glabra (smooth sumac) 
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry) 
Rubus sp. (blackberry) 
Salix sp. (willow)

Vines:
Apios americana (groundnut)
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Cuscuta sp. (dodder)     * 
Euonymus fortunii (Fortune's euonymus) 
Hedera helix (English ivy) 
Menispermum canadense (Canada moonseed) 
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier) 
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vincetoxicum nigrum (black swallowwort) 
Vitis aestivalis (summer grape) 
Vitis riparia (riverbank grape)

Herbs:
Acalypha sp. (three-seeded mercury) 
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)     *
Ajuga reptans (ajuga)    
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)     *
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed)
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut) 
Anemone virginiana (thimbleweed) 
Arabis glabra (tower mustard) 
Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla)    
Arctium sp. (burdock)
Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the pulpit)  
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Asarum canadense (wild ginger) 
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)    
Aster spp. (asters)
Bidens frondosa (beggar tick) 
Bidens sp. (beggar tick) 
Boehmeria cylindrica (false nettle)     * 
Cardamine impatiens (narrow-leaved bittercress)
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed)     * 
Chelidonium majus (celandine)     *
Chenopodium album (pigweed)
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (ox-eye daisy)     *
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)     *
Cirsium vulgaris (bull thistle)     *
Commelina communis (Asiatic dayflower)     *
Conyza canadensis (horseweed)   
Coronilla varia (crown vetch)     * 
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)     *
Duchesnea indica (Indian strawberry)     *
Euphorbia nutans (eyebane spurge)   *
Euthamia graminifolia (grass-leaved goldenrod)
Galium mollugo (wild madder)     *
Geum canadense (white avens)     *
Hepatica americana (round-lobed hepatica) 
Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket)    
Hypericum mutilum (dwarf St. Johnswort)     * 
Hypericum punctatum (spotted St. Johnswort)    *
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed)     *
Iris sp. (blue or yellow flag) 
Leonurus cardiaca (motherwort)     *
Lepidium virginicum (poor man's pepper) 
Ludwigia palustris (water purslane) 
Lycopus virginicus (Virginia bugleweed)     * 
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)     *
Melilotus officinalis (yellow sweet clover)     *
Mentha arvensis (wild mint)     * 
Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)     *
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel)     *
Peltandra virginica (arrow arum) 
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed) 
Pilea pumila (clearweed)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)     *
Plantago major (common plantain)
Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple) 
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose smartweed)     *
Polygonum sagittatum (arrow-leaved tearthumb) 
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)      * 
Potentilla canadensis (dwarf cinquefoil)    
Prunella vulgaris (self-heal)     *
Ranunculus acris (tall buttercup)     * 
Rumex crispus (curled dock) 
Rumex obtusifolius (broad dock)
Smilacina racemosa (false Solomon's seal) 
Solanum carolinense (horse nettle)     * 
Solidago gigantea (late goldenrod)        *
Solidago juncea (early goldenrod)     *
Stellaria pubera (star chickweed)     *
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)
Trifolium pratense (red clover)     *     
Trifolium repens (white clover)     *
Urtica dioica var. procera (tall nettle)   
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)     *   
Verbena hastata (blue vervain)     * 
Verbena urticifolia (white vervain)     *

Rushes:
Juncus effusus (soft rush) 
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Sedges:
Carex lurida (sallow sedge) 
Carex vulpinoidea (fox sedge) 
Cyperus strigosus (umbrella sedge) 
Scirpus atrovirens (dark-green bulrush)

Grasses:
Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal grass)
Bromus inermis (smooth brome grass) 
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Eleusine indica (zipper grass) 
Elymus sp. (wild rye grass) 
Elytrigia repens (quack grass) 
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass) 
Phleum pratense (Timothy grass)
Poa sp. (bluegrass) 
Setaria glauca (yellow foxtail grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Equisetum hyemale (scouring rush) 
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Dryopteris sp. (woodfern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
Pteridium aquilinum (bracken fern) 
Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)

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