Sullivan Farm Property

Route 202 at intersection with Route 109, New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut

105 acres

undeveloped park land

7/07/2005.  I am not sure we found the property.  But I did check out the northeast corner of the intersection.  We parked in the large parking lot of a huge bank building.  On our right the land heads downhill to a cattail marsh.  To the left and right of the north end of the parking area is a large field. 

I followed a rough trail by heading along the parking lot out to the large field; turned right and walked along the north edge of the marsh; turned right again to head down into the marsh; took a small side path into the woods on my left only to discover that it is private property, no trespassing.  Walked along the north side of the marsh, turned left and walked along its western side, turned left again to walk along its south side.  Then walked out of the marsh to Route 109; turned right and walked the short distance on the road back to the large parking lot. Dr. Patrick L. Cooney. 

Source:

Town of New Milford, Connecticut; New Milford Parks & Recreation; Town Parks

http://newmilford.qscend.com/content/57/89/101/128.aspx

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

*  =  plant blooming on date of field trips, 7/07/2005

Trees:
Acer negundo (box elder)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Catalpa sp. (catalpa)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Salix sp. (willow)

Shrubs and Subshrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)  
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Salix sp. (willow)

Vines:
Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed)     *
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Hedera helix (English ivy)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Polygonum scandens (climbing false buchwheat)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Arctium sp. (burdock)
Cichorium intybus (chicory)     * 
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)     *
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)     *
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane)     *
Galium mollugo (wild madder)     *
Geum canadense (white avens)     * 
Hemerocallis fulva (tawny day lily)   
Hypericum sp. (St. Johnswort)     * 
Lotus corniculatus (birdfoot trefoil)     *
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)      *
Medicago lupulina (black medick)     *
Melilotus alba (white sweet clover)     *
Nepeta cataria (catnip)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)     *  
Plantago major (common plantain)
Ranunculus acris (tall buttercup)      *
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima (black-eyed Susan)     *
Rumex crispus (curled dock)
Solidago gigantea (late goldenrod) 
Solidago spp. (goldenrod) 
Trifolium pratense (red clover)     *
Typha angustifolia (narrow-leaved cattail)
Tussilago farfara (coltsfoot)    
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)    *
Vicia cracca (cow vetch)     *

Rushes:
Juncus effusus (soft rush)
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Sedges:
Scirpus atrovirens (dark-green bulrush)
Scirpus cyperinus (woolly grass bulrush)

Grasses:
Bromus inermis (smooth brome grass)
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Elytrigia repens (quack grass)
Phleum pratense (Timothy grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Equisetum arvense (field horsetail)

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