Whalen Pond Park 
Broadway Drive, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Directions:

Saw Mill River Parkway north to its end at mile marker 29; get onto US 684 north; drive about 11 miles to mile marker 28 for exit 9E for US 84 west; drive around 10 miles to get off at exit 7 for Route 7 north; get off at Federal Road; turn left at the light and then right at the next light; (there is a Burger King and a McDonalds on the left side);  turn right onto Junction Road (Route 133 east); drive to the intersection with Route 25 (Whisconier Road); turn left onto Route 25 north.

Drive northeast up to a right turn onto Farview Road by the small triangular Lions Park; make the first right turn onto Hillendale Road; with a very short drive turn left onto Broadway Drive and park by the pond on the right

Trails:. 

There is a small pond here in the shape of a boot.  There is a mowed area in front of the pond and on the right side.  If one wanted to make a circuit of the pond, some bushwhacking would be involved.  Dr. Patrick L. Cooney.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

* =  plant(s) blooming on date of field trip, 8/10/2005

Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven)
Juglans nigra (black walnut)
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Ulmus americana (American elm)

Shrubs and Subshrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Cornus racemosa (gray dogwood)
Buddleja davidii (butterfly bush)      *  planted
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)   
Salix sp. (willow)
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Humulus lupulus (common hops)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis riparia (riverbank grape)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)     *   planted
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Chelidonium majus (celandine)     *
Chenopodium album (pigweed)
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)    *
Commelina communis (Asiatic dayflower)     *
Conyza canadensis (horseweed)     *
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane)       *
Geum canadense (white avens)    
Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket)
Hypericum mutilum (dwarf St. Johnswort)     *
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed)         *
Lycopus sp. (bugleweed)     *
Medicago lupulina (black medick)     *
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)     *
Plantago major (common plantain)
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose smartweed)     *
Polygonum sagittatum (arrow-leaved tearthumb)    
Rumex obtusifolius (broad dock)
Solanum carolinense (horse nettle)      *
Stellaria pubera (star chickweed)     *
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)
Trifolium repens (white clover)    *
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)

Sedges:
Cyperus strigosus (umbrella sedge)
Scirpus atrovirens (dark green bulrush)

Grasses:
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Digitaria ischaemum (smooth crab grass)
Eleusine indica (zipper grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)

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