PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

*  =  plant blooming on date of field trips, 7/01/2005

Trees:
Acer negundo (box elder)   --  lots
Acer saccharum (sugar maple) 
Acer saccharinum (silver maple)  --  lots
Aesculus sp. (horse chestnut)
Catalpa sp. (catalpa)
Fraxinus pensylvanica (green ash)
Juglans nigra (black walnut)
Morus alba (white mulberry) 
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Pyrus calleryana (callery pear)
Salix alba var. (weeping willow)
Thuja occidentalis (arbor-vitae)  planted
Tilia americana (American basswood)
Ulmus americana (American elm)
Ulmus pumila (Siberian elm)     ?
Ulmus rubra (slippery elm)

Shrubs and Subshrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)  
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Ligustrum sp. (privet)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Philadelphus sp. (mock orange)
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Viburnum sieboldii (Siebold's viburnum)

Vines:
Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed)      *
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Humulus japonicus (Japanese hops)
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)     *
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis spp. (grape)

Herbs:
Allium vineale (field garlic)
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed)
Anemone virginiana (thimbleweed)     *
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)  
Bidens sp. (beggar-tick)
Cardamine impatiens (narrow-leaved bittercress)  
Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherd's purse)    
Chelidonium majus (celandine)     *
Chenopodium album (pigweed)
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (ox-eye daisy)     *
Cichorium intybus (chicory)    *
Conyza canadensis (horseweed)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)     *
Dianthus armeria (Deptford pink)     *
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane)     *
Eupatorium rugosum (white snakeroot) 
Galium aparine (cleavers)
Galium mollugo (wild madder)     *
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium)
Geum canadense (white avens)     *
Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket)     *
Hypericum perforatum (common St. Johnswort)     *
Hypericum punctatum (spotted St. Johnswort)     *
Impatiens sp. (touch-me-not)
Iris pseudacorus versicolor (yellow flag)     *
Leonurus cardiaca (motherwort)     *
Lindernia dubia (false pimpernel)     *
Lysimachia ciliata (fringed loosestrife)     *
Lysimachia nummularia (moneywort)     *
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)      *
Medicago lupulina (black medick)     *
Melilotus officinalis (yellow sweet clover)     *
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel)     *
Pilea pumila (clearweed)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)     *
Plantago major (common plantain)
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose smartweed)     *
Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed)
Polygonum lapathifolium (nodding smartweed)     *
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)
Prunella vulgaris (self-heal)     *
Rumex crispus (curled dock)
Rumex obtusifolius (broad dock)
Silene latifolia (white campion)     *
Solanum carolinense (horse nettle)     *
Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade)     *
Solidago gigantea (late goldenrod)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)        *
Thalictrum pubescens (tall meadowrue)     *
Trifolium pratense (red clover)     *
Trifolium repens (white clover)     *
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)    
Veronica anagallis-aquatica (water speedwell)     *

Sedges:
Scirpus atrovirens (dark-green bulrush)

Grasses:
Bromus inermis (smooth brome grass)
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Elytrigia repens (quack grass)
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass)
Phalaris arundinacea (reed canary grass)
Phleum pratense (Timothy grass)
Poa compressa (Canada bluegrass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Equisetum arvense (field horsetail)
Equisetum hyemale (scouring rush)
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Mattueccia struthiopteris (ostrich fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)

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