Hobler Park
The Great Road, Montgomery Township, Somerset County, NJ
The park is not far from the Swan Tract: Opossum Road Woods.

Directions:

Heading south on Route 206, turn right on the Georgetown and Franklin Turnpike (Route 518); turn left onto the Great Road (Route 601); park on the left side of the road, across from Cherry Valley Drive. The park is just south of the Historic Village of Blawenburg.

Geology:

A tributary of Beden's Brook goes through the territory.

Facilities:

Playground.

Trails:

The area consists mainly of a very large open field. There is a trail (part of the Montgomery Pathways) along Beden's Brook.

http://twp.montgomery.nj.us/hob.pdf

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney
* = blooming on 11/01/03

Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Pyrus sp. (Crab apple)
Quercus coccinea (scarlet oak) planted
Quercus phellos (willow oak) planted
Tilia americana (American basswood)

Shrubs:
Buddleja davidii (butterfly bush) planted
Ligustrum sp. (privet)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)
Viburnum dentatum (arrowwood viburnum) planted

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Aster spp. (aster) *
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)
Dipsacus sylvestris (teasel)
Geum canadense (white avens)
Solidago spp. (goldenrod)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)
Verbena urticifolia (white vervain)

Grasses:
Bromus sp.