Lubber's Run Preserve
Route 607, Byram Township, Sussex County, New Jersey

Directions:

US 80 west to exit 25 (Route 206 north); drive about 1.9 miles and at the light turn right onto Route 607 north;  drive to green road mileage marker sign for mile one.  Before and after reaching this mileage marker, you will see the preserve signs nailed to the trees on either side of the road.  There is no official parking area here. 

History:

The State of New Jersey;  Natural Land Trust Preserve.

Trails:

6/06/2005.  On a warm day, Ceferino Santana, dog Sonar and I took a brief walk in the preserve.  There are no trails, but the underbrush is not that heavy and so bushwhacking is not difficult.  We explored the eastern part of the park starting from the north side.  We followed parallel with the marsh around Lubber's Run.  This brought us around a couple of ridges heading north/south through the preserve.  There are quite a few really huge boulders in the preserve, some of which have plants growing on their tops.  The marsh is found on three sides of the preserve with the road on the other side.  On the southern end of the biggest ridge, we could not head around it because we ran into private houses.  So we had to make the short climb to the top of the ridge.  Heading down the other side we soon saw the road.  It was a walk short and sweet.  Should come back during the peak season for the large marsh area.  Dr. Patrick L. Cooney. 

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

* = plants blooming on date of field trip, 6/06/2005. 

Trees:
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Amelanchier arborea (shadbush)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Carya sp. (hickory)
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Nyssa sylvatica (tupelo)
Ostrya virginiana (American hop hornbeam)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Salix sp. (willow)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Tilia americana (American basswood)
Ulmus rubra (slippery elm)

Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Chimaphila maculata (striped wintergreen)
Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepperbush)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Corylus sp. (hazel) 
Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry)
Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
Ilex verticillata (winterberry holly)
Kalmia angustifolia (lambkill)  ?
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)   *
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Rhododendron periclymenoides (pinxter flower)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)  *
Rubus hispidus (swamp dewberry)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)   *
Salix sp. (willow)
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)
Vaccinium pallidum (hillside blueberry)
Vaccinium stamineum (deerberry)  *
Viburnum acerifolium (maple leaf viburnum)
Viburnum dentatum (arrowwood viburnum)
Viburnum lentago (nannyberry viburnum)

Vines and Climbing Herbs:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)  *
Dioscorea villosa (wild yamroot)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis aestivalis (summer grape)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)
Actaea alba (white baneberry)
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)  *
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut)
Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla)
Arctium sp. (burdock)
Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the pulpit)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Aster spp. (aster) 
Barbarea vulgaris (common wintercress)   *
Bidens sp. (beggar ticks) 
Cerastium vulgatum (mouse-ear chickweed)   *
Chelidonium majus (celandine)  *
Chenopodium album (pigweed)
Cirsium sp. (thistle)
Collinsonia canadensis (horsebalm)
Eupatorium rugosum (white snakeroot)
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium)
Geranium robertianum (herb Robert geranium)  *
Hemerocallis fulva (tawny day lily) 
Impatiens sp. (jewelweed)
Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag)  *
Iris versicolor (blue flag)  *
Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs)
Ludwigia palustris (water purslane) 
Lycopus virginicus (Virginia bugleweed)
Lysimachia quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)  *
Medeola virginiana (Indian cucumberroot)
Medicago lupulina (black medick)  *
Melilotus sp. (sweet clover)
Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe)
Nuphar advena (yellow pond lily)   *
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel)  * 
Pastinaca sativa (wild parsnip)
Peltandra virginica (arrow arum) 
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)  *
Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple)
Polygonatum biflorum (smooth true Solomon's seal) 
Polygonum arifolium (halberd-leaved tearthumb)
Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed)
Polygonum sagittatum (arrow-leaved tearthumb)
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)
Prenanthes sp. (lettuce)
Rumex crispus (crisped leaved dock)
Silene vulgaris (bladder campion)   *
Smilacina racemosa (false Solomon' seal)
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)  *
Thalictrum dioicum (early meadowrue) 
Trifolium pratense (red clover)   *
Trifolium repens (white clover)  *
Tussilago farfara (colts foot)  
Typha latifolia (broad-leaved cattail)
Veronica officinalis (common speedwell)  * 
Viola sp.  (violet)

Rushes:
Luzula multiflora (wood rush)

Sedges:
Carex intumescens (bladder sedge)
Carex laxiflora type (loose-flowered type sedge)
Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)
Carex stipata (sedge)
Carex stricta (tussock sedge)

Grasses:
Phalaris arundinacea (canary reed grass) 
 

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Lycopodium obscurum (ground pine)
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Dryopteris marginalis (marginal woodfern)
Dryopteris intermedia (fancy wood fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda regalis (royal fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
Pteridium aquilinum (bracken fern)
Thelypteris palustris (marsh fern)

Others:
Sphagnum sp. (sphagnum moss)