Napeague Meadows
Suffolk County,  Long Island, NY

Directions:

West on Montauk Highway 27; bear right on Napeague Meadow Road; park at the intersection with Lazy Point/Promised Land Road. Walk about 50 feet along Napeague Meadow Road, turn left down the first sand track leading into the "meadows." Salty peat on the right, dune heath on the left. At the fork follow the path to the right to Napeague Harbor.

PLANT LIST:
Judith Fitzgerald and Dr. Patrick L. Cooney, 4/27/02; * = blooming; additions from memory of past trips to the area by Fitzgerald

Trees:
Amelanchier canadensis (coastal shadbush) *
Pinus rigida (pitch pine)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)

Shrubs:
Amorpha fruticosa (false indigo bush)
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (bearberry) *
Iva frutescens (marsh elder)
Prunus maritima (beach plum) *
Rubus sp. (dewberry) (dark green, shining leaves)
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry) *

Vines:
Smilax sp. (greenbrier)

Herbs:
Agalinis sp. (gerardia)
Arabis lyrata (lyrate-leaved rockcress) *
Arenaria sp. (sandwort)
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed)
Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle)
Limonium carolinianum (sea lavender)
Linaria canadensis (blue toadflax) *
Polygonella articulata (sand jointweed)
Salicornia europaea (European glasswort)
Senecio vulgaris (common groundsel)
Solidago sempervirens (seaside goldenrod)
Spiranthes cernua (ladies' tresses)

Rushes:
Juncus gerardii (black grass rush)

Grasses:
Distichlis spicata (salt grass)
Panicum virgatum (switch grass)
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)
Spartina patens

Others:
reindeer lichen

Napeague Meadows Road

Johnson, Ann F. A Guide to the Plant Communities of the Napeague Dunes, Long Island, New York. Mattituck, New York: copy right by Ann F. Johnson, Southampton, NY.

Shrubs and sub-shrubs:
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (bearberry)
Baccharis halimifolia (groundsel bush)
Iva frutescens (marsh elder)
Prunus maritima (beach plum)

Herbs:
Agalinis purpurea (purple gerardia)
Aster ericoides (heath aster)
Aster novae-belgii (New York aster)
Centaurea sp. (knapweed)
Chamaecrista nictitans (wild sensitive plant)
Chrysopsis falcata (sickle-leaved golden aster)
Chrysopsis mariana (Maryland golden aster)
Lechea maritima (pinweed)
Liatris borealis (blazing star)
Limonium carolinianum (seaside lavender)
Lycopus americanus (bugleweed)
Plantago juncoides (seaside plantain)
Pluchea maritima (marsh fleabane)
Polygonella articulata (jointweed)
Sabatia stellaris (marsh pink)
Salicornia bigelovii (glasswort)
Salicornia virginica (glasswort)
Spergularia marina (sand spurrey)
Suaeda maritima (seablite)
Teucrium canadense (American germander)

Sedges:
Cyperus dentatus (umbrella flatsedge)
Scirpus americanus (shorter three-square bulrush)

Grasses:
Distichlis spicata (salt grass)
Panicum virgatum (switchgrass)
Setaria geniculata (bristly foxtail grass)
Spartina patens (salt hay cordgrass)
Spartina alterniflora (tall cordgrass)