OLD MINE ROAD
Coppermine area, Flatbrook, and rocky slope approximately 4.5 miles north of Flatbrook

History:

The Old Mine Road was one of the earliest roads in the region skirting the forest along the Delaware River headed up to Kingston (a distance of 100 miles). It began as an old Indian Trail and then was used by fur traders and Dutch settlers.  Later the road was used for transporting copper and slate from the mines and quarries in the area.

Houses along the road became virtual forts for settlers during the French and Indian War.  It was used by George Washington's soldiers and men such as John Adams and Benjamin Franklin.

mid 19th Century --  part of the Old Mine Road became links in the Underground Railroad.

Unfortunately, when the federal government tried (unsuccessfully) to build a dam at Tock's Island, many of the old homes and structures along the road were demolished.

Stops along the way (Hine 1909):
Kingston
Hurley
Stone Ridge
Accord
Kerhonkson
Wawarsing
Napanoch
Ellenville
Wurtsboro
Westbrookville
Huguenot
Port Jervis
Montague
Flatbrookville
copper mines
Delaware Water Gap

PLANT LIST:

Karl Anderson

Plants noted along Old Mine Road during field trip for the Philadelphia Botanical Club, July 22, 2000, led by Karl Anderson; with additions as noted from a trip to the same area on July 22, 1995.

Scientific nomenclature is generally per Gleason & Cronquist, Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada - Second Edition (New York Botanical Garden, 1991).

English names from a variety of sources.

Trees:
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharinum (silver maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Acer spicatum (mountain maple)
Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (ironwood)
Carya sp. (hickory)
Celtis occidentalis (hackberry)
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Fraxinus pensylvanica (red ash)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Ostrya virginiana (hop hornbeam)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus bicolor (swamp white oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Tilia americana (basswood)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)
Ulmus americana (American elm)
Ulmus rubra (slippery elm)

Shrubs and Subshrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Epigaea repens (trailing arbutus)
Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
Hydrangea arborescens (wild hydrangea)
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow honeysuckle)
Rhododendron maximum (great laurel)
Ribes sativum (garden red currant)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)
Sambucus canadensis (common elder)
Staphylea trifolia (bladdernut)
Vaccinium stamineum (deerberry)
Viburnum acerifolium (maple-leaved viburnum)

Vines:
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut)
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Dioscorea villosa (wild yamroot)
Echinocystis lobata (wild cucumber)
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Menispermum canadense (Canada moonseed)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis aestivalis (summer grape)
Vitis riparia (riverbank grape)

Broad-leaved Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
Actaea alba (white baneberry)
Agrimonia sp. (agrimony)
Alisma subcordatum (small water plantain)
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Angelica atropurpurea (great angelica)
Apocynum cannabinum (Indian hemp)
Aquilegia canadensis (wild columbine)
Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla)
Aralia racemosa (spikenard) (seen in 1995 only)
Arisaema triphyllum (jack-in-the-pulpit)
Asarum canadense (wild ginger)
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)
Asparagus officinalis (asparagus)
Boehmeria cylindrica (false nettle)
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed)
Cerastium vulgatum (mouse-ear chickweed)
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (ox-eye daisy)
Cimicifuga racemosa (black snakeroot)
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)
Collinsonia canadensis (horse balm)
Commelina communis (Asiatic dayflower)
Cryptotaenia canadensis (honewort)
Cypripedium acaule (pink lady's slipper)
Daucus carota (wild carrot)
Desmodium glutinosum (pointed-leaved tick trefoil)
Dipsacus sp. (teasel)
Epipactis helleborine (helleborine)
Erigeron philadelphicus (Philadelphia fleabane)
Eupatorium rugosum (white snakeroot)
Galeopsis tetrahit (hemp nettle)
Galium mollugo (wild madder)
Geum canadense (white avens)
Hackelia virginiana (Virginia stickseed)
Hedyotis caerulea (bluets)
Heliopsis helianthoides (oxeye)
Hemerocallis fulva (tawny daylily)
Heracleum lanatum (cow parsnip)
Heuchera americana (alumroot)
Hydrophyllum virginianum (Virginia waterleaf)
Hypericum punctatum (spotted St. Johnswort)
Impatiens capensis (spotted touch-me-not)
Impatiens pallida (pale touch-me-not)
Laportea canadensis (wood nettle)
Leonurus cardiaca (motherwort)
Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower) (seen in 1995 only)
Lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco)
Lycopus sp. (water horehound)
Lysimachia ciliata (fringed loosestrife)
Lysimachia nummularia (moneywort)
Lysimachia quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)
Mimulus ringens (monkey flower)
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Monarda didyma (Oswego tea) (seen in 1995 only)
Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot)
Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe)
Myosotis scorpioides (forget-me-not)
Osmorhiza longistylis (aniseroot)
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel)
Pastinaca sativa (wild parsnip)
Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beardtongue)
Phryma leptostachya (lopseed)
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed)
Pilea pumila (clearweed)
Plantago major (common plantain)
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose knotweed)
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)
Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil)
Prenanthes alba (white lettuce)
Prunella vulgaris (self-heal)
Sagittaria latifolia (broad-leaved arrowhead)
Saponaria officinalis (bouncing bet)
Satureja vulgaris (wild basil)
Saxifraga virginiensis (early saxifrage)
Scrophularia sp. (figwort)
Sium suave (water parsnip)
Solidago gigantea (late goldenrod)
Stellaria aquatica (giant chickweed)
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Trillium erectum (wake-robin)
Tussilago farfara (colt'sfoot)
Urtica dioica (stinging nettle)
Verbena hastata (blue vervain)
Verbena urticifolia (white vervain)
Viola conspersa (dog violet)
Viola sororia (common blue violet)
Zosterella dubia (water star-grass) (seen in 1995 only)

Grasses:
Agrostis gigantea (red-top)
Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal grass)
Bromus inermis (Hungarian brome)
Bromus pubescens (hairy brome)
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Danthonia compressa (flattened wild oat-grass)
Elymus hystrix (bottle-brush grass)
Elymus riparius (riverbank wild rye)
Festuca pratensis (meadow fescue)
Festuca subverticillata (nodding fescue)
Glyceria striata (fowl manna-grass)
Leersia virginica (white grass)
Microstegium vimineum (stiltgrass)
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass)
Phalaris arundinacea (reed canary grass)
Poa compressa (Canada bluegrass)
Setaria faberi (nodding foxtail)

Sedges and Rushes:
Carex appalachia (Appalachian sedge)
Carex argyrantha (hay sedge)
Carex hystericina (porcupine sedge)
Carex intumescens (bladder sedge)
Carex lupulina (hop sedge)
Carex lurida (sallow sedge)
Carex platyphylla (broad-leaved sedge)
Carex stricta (tussock sedge)
Carex swanii (Swan's sedge)
Juncus tenuis (path rush)
Scirpus atrovirens (dark-green bulrush)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Equisetum arvense (field horsetail)
Equisetum fluviatile (water horsetail)
Equisetum hyemale (scouring rush)
Lycopodium clavatum (running pine)
Lycopodium digitatum (southern ground cedar) (seen in 1995 only)
Lycopodium lucidulum (shining club moss) (seen in 1995 only)
Lycopodium obscurum (tree club moss)
Lycopodium obscurum var. isophyllum (Hickey's tree club-moss) (not per G & C)
Adiantum pedatum (maidenhair fern)
Asplenium platyneuron (ebony spleenwort)
Asplenium rhizophyllum (walking fern)
Asplenium trichomanes (maidenhair spleenwort)
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Athyrium thelypteroides (silvery glade fern)
Cystopteris bulbifera (bulblet fern)
Cystopteris fragilis (fragile fern)
Cystopteris protrusa (lowland fragile fern)
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (hay-scented fern)
Dryopteris carthusiana (spinulose wood fern)
Dryopteris intermedia (evergreen wood fern)
Dryopteris marginalis (marginal wood fern)
Matteuccia struthiopteris (ostrich fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)