Larchmont Park
Union, Union County, New Jersey

Directions:

US 78 to Exit 50A; turn right onto Vauxhall Road south; after crossing the bridge take the immediate right onto Liberty Avenue south; drive about 0.8 of a mile and turn right onto Carol Road.  Turn right onto Nicholas Avenue; park.  The park is in front of you.

Facilities:

 Baseball field, basketball court, playground, picnic table, lawn.  Quite a sizable piece of natural lands heading to the Rahway River.  .

Trails:

12/23/2004.  .No trails that my brother-in-law and I could see.  I did not push in too far into the woods because there are a lot of wet spots here forming a rough wetland.  We'll have to come back to check it out in more detail.  Dr. Patrick L. Cooney.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

Trees:
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Ilex opaca (American holly)
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum)
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)

Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Rubus hispidus (swamp dewberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)

Vines:
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)  --  lots of it
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Artemesia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Geum canadense (white avens)
Glechoma hederacea (gill over the ground)
Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed)
Typha latifolia (broad-leaved cattail)

Rushes:
Juncus effusus (soft rush)

Grasses:
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)