Foschini Park 
Peters Road, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ

27.79 acres

Directions:

US 80 heading west; get off aft Exit 65;  turn right onto Polifly Road; turn right onto Essex/Court Street; turn left onto River Street; opposite E. Camdenm Street, turn right and head straight into the park. 

Facilities:

This park is the "recreation epicenter of the city of Hackensack.  It is the largest park in Hackensack.  It is home to semi-professional baseball Troasts.  It is also home to amateur soft-ball, football, and soccer teams. 

11 ball fields.  Field house where they sell food.  The visitor can also stroll along the new riverside walkway.

PLANT LIST:
Patrick L. Cooney, Ph. D.;  * = plant blooming on 7/29/2006

Trees:
Acer negundo (box elder maple)
Catalpa sp. (catalpa)
Morus alba (white mulberry)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust)
Tilia americana (American basswood)
Ulmus pumila (Siberian elm)
Ulmus rubra (slippery elm)

Shrubs and sub-shrubs:
Baccharis halimifolia (groundsel bush)
Iva frutescens (marsh elder)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)

Vines: 
Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (porcelain berry)
Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed)  *
Humulus japonicus (Japanese hops)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Polygonum perfoliatum (mile a minute vine)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs: 
Artemisia sp. (mugwort)
Centaurea jacea (brown knapweed)  *
Chenopodium album (pigweed)
Chenopodium ambrosioides (Mexican tea)
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)  *
Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle)  *
Commelina communis (Asiatic day flower)  *
Dianthus armeria (Deptford Pink)  *
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane)  *
Euphorbia maculata (spotted spurge)
Hibiscus moscheutos (swamp rose mallow)  *
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed)  *
Iris sp. (iris)
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)  *
Melilotus alba (white sweet clover)  *
Mentha spicata (spearmint)  * 
Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)  *
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed)  *
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)  *
Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed)
Polygonum sp. (knotweed)  *
Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)
Rumex obtusifolius (broad dock)
Samolus floribundus (water pimpernel)  *
Silene latifolia (white campion)  *
Verbascum blattaria (moth mullein)
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)
Verbena urticifolia (white vervain)  *       
Veronica sp. (speedwell)  *

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Grasses:
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)
Setaria faberi (nodding foxtail grass)