Sunny Valley: Iron Ore Hill parcel
Iron Ore Hill Road, Bridgewater, Litchfield County, Connecticut

Directions:

Route 133 north in Brookfield;  pass over the bridge over the Housatonic with a boat launch area on the north side of the river and on the right in Bridgewater; in this area turn left onto Northrop Street;  make a left turn onto Iron Ore Hill Road; drive 0.3 of a mile where you will see the sign for the Iron Ore Hill Nature Sanctuary on the left.  Park on the right side of the road across from the Iron Ore Hill Nature Sanctuary.  The trail will start at this pull-off on the right.  

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

* = plant blooming on date of field trip, 8/01/2005

Trees:
Acer negundo (box elder)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)
Ostrya virginiana (American hop hornbeam)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)
Ulmus rubra (slippery elm)

Shrubs and Subshrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Chimaphila maculata (striped wintergreen)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose) 
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)  
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry)
Viburnum acerifolium (smooth arrowwood viburnum)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Cuscuta sp. (dodder)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
Agrimonia gryposepala  (agrimony)     *
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)    *
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed)
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut)
Arisaema triphyllum (jack-in-the-pulpit)
Aster spp. (aster)
Bidens sp. (beggar tick)
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (ox-eye daisy)    *
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)     *
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane)    *
Galium aparine (cleavers)  
Galium sp. (bedstraw)   
Geum canadense (white avens)
Goodyera pubescens (rattlesnake plantain)
Helianthus strumosus (pale-leaved sunflower)     *
Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket)
Impatiens sp. (jewelweed)     
Iris sp. (blue or yellow flag)  fruit indented on 3 sides
Laportea canadensis (wood nettle)     *
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)
Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe)
Osmorhiza sp. (cicely) 
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel)    *
Pilea pumila (clearweed)
Plantago major (common plantain)
Polygonatum pubescens (hairy true Solomon's seal)
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose smartweed)     *
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)     *
Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil) 
Prunella vulgaris (self-heal)     *
Pyrola sp. (pyrola)
Silene latifolia (white campion)    *
Smilacina racemosa (false Solomon's seal)
Solanum nigrum (black nightshade)   *
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)  
Veronica officinalis (common speedwell)  
Viola sp. (violet)

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Sedges:
Carex laxiflora type (loose-flower type sedge)
Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)

Grasses:
Bromus inermis (smooth brome grass)
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Elymus hystrix (bottlebrush grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (hay-scented fern)
Dryopteris marginalis (marginal woodfern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda claytoniana (interrupted fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)

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