Berry’s Creek Marsh
East Rutherford/Lyndhurst, Bergen County, NJ

Located on the west side of the river, extending from the Lyndhurst Corporate Park, on the west, to the river on the east, and from Route 3 on the north, to the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad (Conrail) on the south, just south of the Jersey City Aqueduct.

The site includes Berry’s Creek (southern portion), Berry’s Creek Canal, and Oritani Marsh.

Habitats:

high and low salt marshlands interspersed with fill

Restoration:

some of the marsh fill is becoming forested

PLANTS:

Herbs:
Atriplex patula (orache)
Hibiscus moscheutos (rose mallow) occasional
Pluchea odorata (marsh-fleabane)
Typha sp. (cattail)

Rushes:
Juncus sp. (rush)

Sedges:
Eleocharis sp. (spikerush)

Grasses:
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)
Spartina alterniflora (salt marsh hay cordgrass)
Spartina patens (salt meadow cordgrass)

Other:
blue-green “alga” (blue-green bacterium)

Source:

Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey, Biodiversity: A Review and Synthesis; Erik Kiviat and Kristi MacDonald. http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:PW5t02cIVgJ:www.nynjbaykeeper.org/photo/hm%2520alert%2520-%2520kiviat%2520report.pdf+%22Harrier+Meadow%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8