Singing  Oaks Nature Preserve
Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut
18 acres

This Preserve abuts on its east side the Laurel Ridge Preserve (2 acres).

Directions:

Heading east on the Merritt Parkway get off at exit 42; turn right onto Route 57 north; drive 3.5 miles north to the intersection with Route 53;  head straight through the intersection onto Route 53 north;  turn left onto Singing Oaks Drive; drive 0.1 of a mile and turn right onto Equestrian Trail; drive 0.2 of a mile to its end.  There is a small parking area at the circle at the end of  road; near house #15.

Trails:

9/20/2005.  Just a quick stop to see what the entrance area looked like.  Dr. Patrick L. Cooney.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

*  =  plants blooming on field trip, 9/20/2005

Trees:
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Betula nigra (river birch)     planted
Carya glabra (pignut hickory)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar))

Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Myrica pensylvanica (bayberry)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)

Herbs:
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)
Aster sp. (small white aster)     *
Cichorium intybus (chicory)    *
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)     *
Dianthus armeria (Deptford pink)
Euthamia graminifolia (grass-leaved goldenrod)     *
Gallium mollugo (wild madder)     *
Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs)     *
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel)     *
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)
Rumex obtusifolius (broad dock)    
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)

Grasses:
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass)

Ferns:
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)

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