Pine Swamp
Mahlon Dickerson

Directions:

TZ bridge; US 87 west; US 287 south for 13 miles to exit 52A-B for Route 23 north; drive until you get to the exit for Reservoir Road; drive south and at T-intersection turn right; turn right onto Chamberlain Road (Rt. 620) in about .2-.4 of a mile; drive and turn left onto Milton Road. 0.2 mile and turn right on Hayward Road; drive 0.2 mile and park along the left side of the road.

There is a cause way (stream broke though it relatively recently before 7/05/01). At 4-way intersection turn left and follow the trail that keeps the Pine Swamp on your left; at T-intersection turn left onto the white trail and follow this trail (passing the Yellow trail on the right) until you come to a small parking area on Milton Road. If you have an extra car you can park it here (1.7 miles in from the turn onto Milton Road from Rt. 620) where you see two blue diamonds marking the Blue Trail.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Amelanchier arborea (shadbush) 7/05/01 in fruit
Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Carya sp. (hickory)
Castanea dentata (American chestnut)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus prinus (chestnut oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)

Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepperbush)
Forsythia sp. (golden bells) planted
Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry)
Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lyonia ligustrina (maleberry) 7/05/01
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Rhododendron maximum (rosebay rhododendron) 7/05/01 lots
Rhododendron viscosum (swamp azalea) 7/05/01
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry) 7/05/01
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Vaccinium angustifolium (low bush blueberry)
Vaccinium corymbosum (high bush blueberry)
Viburnum acerifolium (maple-leaf viburnum)

Vines:
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Smilax sp. (greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Bidens sp. (beggar ticks)
Chelone glabra (white turtlehead)
Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen)
Chrysosplenium (golden saxifrage) lots
Circaea lutetiana (enchanters' nightshade) 7/05/01
Cryptotaenia canadensis (honewort)
Dianthus armeria (Deptford pink) 7/05/01
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane) 7/05/01
Galium asprellum (rough bedstraw) 7/05/01
Galium (lanced leaved wild licorice)
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium)
Hieracium caespitosum (yellow king devil)
Hypoxis hirsuta (yellow star grass) 7/05/01
Lycopus sp. (water horehound)
Lysimachia quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)
Medeola virginiana (Indian cucumber root)
Melampyrum lineare (cowwheat) 7/05/01
Monotropa hypopithys (pine sap) 7/05/01
Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe) 7/05/01
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel) 7/05/01
Paronychia canadensis (forked chickweed)
Pedicularis canadensis (wood betony)
Polygonum arifolium (halberd-leaved tearthumb)
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose smartweed) 7/05/01
Prenanthes altissima (tall lettuce)
Prenanthes trifoliolata (tall rattlesnake root)
Prunella vulgaris (self-heal) 7/05/01
Smilacina racemosa (false Solomon's seal)
Sparganium sp. (bur-reed)
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Triadenum virginianum (swamp St. Johnswort)
Trientalis borealis (starflower)
Uvularia perfoliata (perfoliate-leaved bellwort)
Uvularia sessilifolia (sessile-leaved bellwort)
Veronica officinalis (common speedwell)
Viola spp. (violets)

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)
Luzula multiflora (wood rush)

Sedges:
Carex laxiflora type (sedge)
Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)
Carex stricta (tussock sedge)
Scirpus atrovirens (dark green bulrush)

Grasses:
Leersia oryzoides (rice cut grass)
Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stilt grass)
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass)

Ferns:
Equisetum arvense (field horsetail)
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (hay-scented fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda claytoniana (interrupted fern)
Osmunda regalis (royal fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)

* source: Morris County Planning Board. 2000. A Natural Resource Management Guide for the County of Morris.
Gaultheria hispidula (creeping snowberry) *
(dwarf mistletoe) *
(Fernald's meadowgrass) *
(rosy twisted stalk) *