Dutchess Junction Park
Route 9D, Beacon, Town of Fishkill, Dutchess County, NY

Directions:

From Cold Spring, Putnam County, NY, head north on Route 9D into Dutchess County and turn left at mile marker 10:21.

Trails:

There is a small jungle gym area here. The immediate area was once used as a dumping area and one finds typewriters and refrigerators strewn around. There are a lot of Norway maples in this area. The unblazed trail heading north descends down to the river. You pass by lots of multiflora rose and Asiatic bittersweet, go through the tunnel under the railroad tracks and then soon come to the Hudson River opposite some oil storage tanks just south of Newburgh. You can the Beacon-Newburgh bridge from here. Also seen is Bannerman's castle on Pollepel Island. The shore here is covered with bricks (marked with the imprints A. B. O., Aldrige and Hammond).

If you walk southeast on the path to Route 9D, on the left across the highway is the start of the blue-blazed Notch Trail that heads up to the Fishkill Ridge and then on to Sunset Point.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney
8/08/02, 9/07/03 = dates plants found in bloom

Trees:
Acer negundo (ash-leaf maple)
Acer platanoides (Norway maple) lots
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven)
Albizia julibrissin (silk tree) 8/08/02
Alnus glutinosa (black alder)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Carya tomentosa (mockernut hickory)
Catalpa sp. (catalpa)
Celtis occidentalis (hackberry)
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)
Fraxinus pensylvanica (green ash)
Juglans nigra (black walnut)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tuliptree)
Morus alba (white mulberry)
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Populus grandidentata (big-tooth aspen)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Ulmus americana (American elm)

Shrubs:
Amorpha fruticosa (false indigo)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Cornus amomum (swamp or silky dogwood)
Cornus racemosa (gray-stemmed dogwood)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Philadelphus sp. (mock orange)
Rhamnus cathartica (common buckthorn)
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)
Viburnum opulus (cranberry viburnum)
Viburnum prunifolium (blackhaw viburnum)
Vinca minor (periwinkle)

Vines:
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut)
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Menispermum canadense (Canada moonseed)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade)
Strophostyles helvula (annual woolly bean) 9/07/03
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vincetoxicum nigrum (black swallowwort)
Vitis aestivalis (summer grape)

Herbs:
Acalypha sp. (three-seeded mercury)
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)
Agrimonia parviflora (small-flowered agrimony)
Agrimonia gryposepala (agrimony) 8/08/02
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed) 9/07/03
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut)
Apocynum cannabinum (Indian hemp dogbane)
Arctium sp. (burdock)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)
Bidens frondosa (beggar ticks) 9/07/03
Boehmeria cylindrica (false nettle)
Cichorium intybus (chicory) 8/08/02
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)
Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle) 9/07/03
Commelina communis (Asiatic dayflower) 9/07/03
Conyza canadensis (horseweed) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Datura stramonium (jimsonweed) 9/07/03
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Dianthus armeria (Deptford pink) 9/07/03
Duchesnea indica (Indian strawberry) 9/07/03
Erechtites hieraciifolia (pileweed) 9/07/03
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Eupatorium album (white boneset) 9/07/03
Euphorbia maculata (spotted spurge)
Euphorbia nutans (upright spurge) 8/08/02
Euthamia graminifolia (grass-leaved goldenrod) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Galium sp. (bedstraw)
Geum canadense (white avens)
Glechoma hederacea (gill-over-the-ground)
Gnaphalium obtusifolium (sweet everlasting) 9/07/03
Hackelia virginiana (Virginia stickseed)
Hieracium sp. (hawkweed)
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Iris sp. (blue or yellow flag)
Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco) 9/07/03
Lotus corniculatus (birdfoot trefoil) 8/08/02
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Melilotus alba (white sweet clover) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot) 8/08/02
Nepeta cataria (catnip)
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Plantago major (common plantain)
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose smartweed) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed) 9/07/03
Polygonum hydropiper (water pepper) 9/07/03
Polygonum lapathifolium (nodding smartweed) 9/07/03
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)
Prunella vulgaris (self-heal) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Pycnanthemum sp. (mountain mint)
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (narrow-leaved mountain mint)
Rudbeckia triloba (thin-leaved coneflower) 8/08/02
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima (black-eyed Susan) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Rumex obtusifolius (broad dock)
Silene vulgaris (bladder campion) 9/07/03
Solanum carolinense (horse nettle nightshade) 9/07/03
Solidago canadensis var. scabra (tall goldenrod) 9/07/03
Solidago gigantea (late goldenrod) 9/07/03
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)
Trapa natans (water chestnut)
Trifolium repens (white clover) 8/08/02
Trifolium pratense (red clover) 8/08/02 9/07/03
Tussilago farfara (coltsfoot)
Vallisneria americana (water celery)?
Verbascum blattaria (moth mullein) 9/07/03
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein) 9/07/03
Verbena urticifolia (white vervain) 8/08/02
Veronica officinalis (common speedwell)

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Sedges:
Cyperus sp. (nut or umbrella sedge)

Grasses:
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Digitaria sanguinalis (hairy crabgrass)
Echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard grass) with and without long awns
Eleusine indica (goose or zipper grass)
Elymus virginicus (Virginia wild rye grass)
Leersia alba (white grass)
Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stilt grass)
Panicum dichotomiflorum (fall panic grass)
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)
Setaria faberi (nodding foxtail grass)
Setaria glauca (yellow foxtail grass)
Tridens flavus (purple top grass)

Ferns:
Equisetum arvense (field horsetail)
Equisetum hyemale (scouring rush)
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)