Lake Wangum
Wangum Road, North Canaan, Connecticut

Directions:

From the center of Norfolk, town of Norfolk, drive south on Route 272.  Turn right onto Mountain Road; passing into the town of North Canaan, the name of the road turns to Wangum Road.  There is no trespassing at Lake Wangum, so we had to park our car alongside the road and walk along the lake's southern edge and back.   

6/18/2006.  The family was on vacation out of Travel Lodge in Great Barrington, MA.  Since we could not get to Lake Wangum from the Beckley Furnace area, we decided to approach it via the car. We parked along the road and walked west along the road and back to the car.  It makes for a nice, if short, walk.  The lake is very close to the road here.  Dr. Patrick L. Cooney.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney, 6/18/06 = plant in bloom on date of field trip.

Trees:
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch)
Betula papyrifera (white birch)
Crataegus sp. (hawthorn)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Taxus sp. (yew)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)
Ulmus americana (American elm)

Shrubs:
Alnus serrulata (smooth alder)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Diervilla lonicera (bush honeysuckle)  *
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)  *
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Rubus odoratus (purple-flowering raspberry)  *
Rubus sp. (blackberry) *
Salix sp. (willow)
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry)
Spiraea alba var. latifolia (meadowsweet)
Spiraea tomentosa (steeplebush)
Viburnum alnifolium (hobblebush)
Viburnum dentatum (smooth arrowwood viburnum)

Vines:
Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)  *
Actaea alba (white baneberry)
Actaea rubra (red baneberry)
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut)
Aquilegia canadensis (columbine)  *
Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the pulpit)
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed)
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (ox-eye daisy)  *
Erigeron pulchellus (robin's fleabane)  *
Eupatorium rugosum (white snakeroot)
Galium mollugo (wild madder)  *
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium)  *
Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket)  *
Hieracium caespitosum (field hawkweed)  *
Lychnis flos-cuculi (ragged robin)  *
Medicago lupulina (black medick)  *
Melilotus sp. (sweet clover)
Nuphar variegata (spatterdock)
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel) *
Pastinaca sativa (wild parsley)  *
Peltandra virginica (arrow arum)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)  *
Plantago major (common plantain)
Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil)  *
Ranunculus acris (tall buttercup)  *
Sedum telephioides (garden sedum)
Silene latifolia (white campion)  *
Sisyrinchium sp. (blue-eyed grass)  *
Smilacina racemosa (false Solomon's seal)
Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade) 
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)  *
Thalictrum pubescens (tall meadowrue)  *
Trifolium pratense (red clover) *
Tussilago farfara (coltsfoot)
Veronica officinalis (common speedwell)  *
Zizia aurea (golden Alexander)  *

Sedges:
Scirpus atrovirens (dark-green bulrush)

Grasses:
Bromus inermis (smooth brome grass)
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)

Ferns:
Equisetum arvense (field horsetail)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda claytoniana (interrupted fern)
Pteridium aquilinum (bracken fern)

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