Farny Natural Area south
Morris County, NJ

The Farny Natural Area is located within the Highlands. It harbors headwaters to, and reservoirs of, potable water supplies, as well as diverse plant communities including habitat of threatened and endangered species, and old growth forests. Glaciers sculpted the terrain and drainage patterns thus influencing the evolution of soils, vegetation and wildlife.

Mesic uplands contain colonies of mixed oak, sugar maple-mixed hardwoods, and hemlock/mixed hardwood. Xeric communities of Pith Pine/Scrub Oak and Chestnut Oak forest occur in the higher elevations. Low lying wet areas include red maple swamps, floodplain forests, marshes, shrub swamps, bogs, and successional fields.

PLANT LIST:
Morris County Planning Board. 2000. A Natural Resource Management Guide for the County of Morris.

Trees:
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Acer sp. (green barked maple)
Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Carya cordiformis (bitternut hickory)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Castanea dentata (American chestnut)
Fraxinus pensylvanica (green ash)
Larix sp. (larch)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus prinus (chestnut oak)
Salix nigra (black willow)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)

Shrubs:
Alnus serrulata (smooth alder)
Andromeda glaucophylla (bog rosemary)
Chamaedaphne calyculata (leatherleaf)
Chimaphila maculata (striped wintergreen)
Comptonia peregrina (sweetfern)
Corylus americana (American hazel nut)
Decodon verticillata (swamp loosestrife)
Epigaea repens (trailing arbutus)
Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry)
Kalmia angustifolia (sheep laurel)
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)
Ledum groenlandicum (Labrador Tea)
Macrocarpon macrocarpon (cranberry)
Quercus ilicifolia (scrub oak)
Rhododendron maximum (rosemary rhododendron)
Rhododendron sp. (rhododendron)
Rhododendron viscosum (swamp azalea)
Vaccinium macrocarpon (cranberry)
Vaccinium sp. (blueberry)
Viburnum dentatum (arrowwood viburnum)

Vines:
Vitis labrusca (fox grape)

Herbs:
(wild orchids)
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Aquilegia canadensis (columbine)
Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla)
Claytonia virginica (spring beauty)
Convallaria majalis (false lily of the valley)
Cunila origanoides (dittany)
Cypripedium (showy ladyslipper)
Dicentra cucullaria (Dutchman's breeches)
Drosera sp. (sundew)
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium)
Goodyera pubescens (downy rattlesnake plantain)
Hepatica americana (round-lobed hepatica)
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)
Medeola virginiana (Indian cucumber root)
Osmorhiza claytonii (sweet Cecily)
Pontederia cordata (pickerel weed)
Sagittaria sp. (arrowhead)
Sarracenia purpurea (pitcher plant)
Smilacina racemosa (false Solomon's seal)
Solidago canadensis (Canada goldenrod)
Trillium erectum (stinking Benjamin)
Typha latifolia (common cattail)
Viola sororia (common blue violet)
Viola (northern blue violet)

Rushes:
common reed

Sedges:
Carex stricta (tussock sedge)
Eleocharis sp. (spike rush)
Scirpus sp. (bulrushes)

Grasses:
hair grass

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Lycopodium clavatum (running ground pine clubmoss)
Lycopodium digitatum (flat branch clubmoss)
Lycopodium lucidulum (shining clubmoss)
Lycopodium obscurum (ground clubmoss)
Lycopodium (staghorn clubmoss)
Dryopteris sp. (spinulose wood fern)
Osmunda regalis (royal fern)
Polypodium sp. (rock cap fern)

Other:
sphagnum moss
pigeon wheat moss
pincushion moss
reindeer moss