Newman's Mill Park
Riverbank Road, Stamford, New Fairfield County, CT
9 acres
Directions:
From the Merritt Parkway heading north. Get off at Exit 33. Turn right onto Den Road and very shortly a left onto Roxbury Road. Drive to Westover Road/Riverbank Road. A short distance on the left is June Road (north of the Merritt Parkway) and an exit way and then the entrance way into the parking area.
Habitat:
A shallow hemlock ravine along the Mianus River. There is a waterfall over a dam.
PLANT LIST:
Patrick L. Cooney, Ph. D.; * = plant blooming on date of field trip, 08/19/2006
Trees:
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Juglans nigra (black walnut)
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum)
Prunus avium (sweet cherry)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust)
Salix sp. (willow)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)
Ulmus americana (American elm)
Shrubs and sub-shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Chimaphila maculata (striped wintergreen)
Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepperbush)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Decodon verticillatus (swamp loosestrife) *
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
Ilex verticillata (winterberry)
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)
Ligustrum sp. (privet)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Pachysandra terminalis (pachysandra)
Philadelphus sp. (mock orange)
Rhamnus frangula (European buckthorn)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)
Syringa vulgaris (lilac)
Vaccinium pallidum (hillside blueberry)
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)
Viburnum acerifolium (maple-leaf viburnum)
Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis aestivalis (summer grape)
Herbs:
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed)
Antennaria sp. (pussytoes)
Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla)
Aster spp. (aster) *
Boehmeria cylindrica (false nettle)
Chelidonium majus (celandine) *
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)
Cryptotaenia canadensis (honewort)
Erechtites hieraciifolia (pileweed)
Eupatorium fistulosum (trumpetweed)
Eupatorium sp. (Joe Pye weed) *
Galium aparine (cleavers) *
Geranium sp. (geranium)
Geum canadense (white avens)
Hemerocallis fulva (tawny day lily)
Hieracium paniculatum (panicled hawkweed) *
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed)
Lactuca canadensis (wild lettuce)
Lemna sp. (duckweed)
Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs)
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel) *
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose smartweed) *
Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed)
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)
Pontederia cordata (pickerelweed) *
Potamogeton sp. (pondweed)
Rumex obtusifolius (broad dock)
Sagittaria latifolia (broad-leaved arrowhead)
Sedum sp. (sedum)
Solidago spp. (goldenrod) *
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Urtica dioica var. dioica (stinging nettle)
Yucca filamentosa (Adam's needle)
Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)
Sedges:
Carex crinita (fringed sedge)
Carex vulpinoidea (fox sedge)
Grasses:
Cinna arundinacea (wood reedgrass)
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Digitaria sp. (crab grass)
Elymus sp. (wild rye grass)
Leersia oryzoides (rice cut grass)
Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stilt grass)
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass)
Ferns:
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda claytoniana (interrupted fern)
Polypodium sp. (rock cap fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)
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