Southfield Park
Southfield Avenue, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
13 acres

Directions:

US-95 north to exit 7; turn right onto Greenwich Avenue which heads directly into Southfield Avenue; just below Congress Street on the right, look on the left for the park entrance; turn left into the park.  Parking is down by the Stamford Harbor, straight ahead. 

Facilities:

baseball field, basketball court, 2 tennis courts, playground, swimming, picnic area

At the parking lot is the entrance for the Public Access Way to Stamford Harbor (with its gazebo and small light house).

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney, a few plant noted on a very brief stop to the Park. 

* =  plant blooming on date of field trip, 10/10/2005.

Trees:
Acer platanoides var. (purple-leaved Norway maple) planted
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum)
Morus alba (white mulberry)
Pinus sp. (pine)
Salix alba var. (weeping willow)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs:
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Aster spp. (aster)     *

Grasses:
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)
Spartinaalterniflora (salt marsh hay cordgrass)

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