John W. Flemer Preserve
Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ

Across the street is the D&R Canal State Park: Kingston Lock.

History:

The land was donated by the Flemer family and Robert M. Englebrecht to the New Jersey Natural Lands Trust in 1988 in memory of John W. Flemer.

New Jersey Land Trust

Trails:

The trail goes along the east shore of the Delaware and Raritan canal with the State Park's trail path on the other side of the canal. The trail is only on a narrow piece of land sandwiched between the canal on the left and a plateau with residential houses on the right. Pond on right.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney, brief visit, November 21, 2003

Trees:
Acer negundo (box elder maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven)
Betula nigra (river birch)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum)
Picea abies (Norway spruce)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)
Pseudoacacia acacia (black locust)
Quercus palustris (pin oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Salix sp. (willow)

Shrubs:
Alnus sp. (alder)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Ligustrum sp. (privet)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs:
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Allium vineale (field garlic)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Aster sp. (aster)
Barbarea vulgaris (common wintercress)
Geum sp. (avens)
Lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco) *
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)
Rumex crispus (curled dock)
Rumex obtusifolius (broad dock)
Solidago spp. (goldenrod)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)
Trifolium sp. (clover)

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Sedges:
Scirpus cyperinus (woolly grass bulrush)

Grasses:
bamboo
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass)
Schizachyrium scoparium (little blues stem grass)