Kent Preserve
Carmel, Putnam County, NY
6 acres

Directions:

Take Route 301 from Route 52 in Carmel. Continue for 4.9 miles. Turn left onto Peekskill Hollow Road. Continue for 1.8 miles. Preserve is on the left just north of Town Line Road.

Habitats:

A small wetland, mostly marsh, near the headwaters of the Peekskill Hollow Brook.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney
* = 7/15/02 = date plant found in bloom

Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Fraxinus pensylvanica (green ash)
Juglans nigra (black walnut)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)

Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Cornus racemosa (gray dogwood)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)
Salix discolor (pussy willow)
Salix sp. (willow)
Spiraea alba var. latifolia (meadowsweet) *

Vines:
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis aestivalis (summer grape)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (yarrow) *
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed)
Arctium sp. (burdock)
Chenopodium album (pigweed)
Cichorium intybus (chicory) *
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade) *
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle) *
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace) *
Dianthus armeria (Deptford pink) *
Eupatorium maculatum (eastern Joe Pye weed) *
Galium mollugo (wild madder) *
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium)
Hackelia virginiana (Virginia stickseed) *
Lysimachia ciliata (fringed loosestrife) *
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) *
Polygonum lapathifolium (nodding smartweed) *
Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil)
Ranunculus acris (tall buttercup) *
Rorippa sp. (yellow cress)
Satureja vulgaris (wild basil) *
Solidago sp. (goldenrod)
Stellaria pubera (giant chickweed) *
Tussilago farfara (coltsfoot)
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein) *

Sedges:
Carex stricta (tussock sedge)

Grasses:
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Phalaris arundinacea (canary reed grass)
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)

Ferns:
Osmunda claytoniana (interrupted fern)
Thelypteris palustris (marsh fern)