Mill Pond Park
Mill Pond Road, Montgomery Township, Somerset County, NJ

Directions:

Heading south on Route 206, turn left onto Maple Street and make immediate left onto Harlingen Road (passing by the parking areas for Montgomery Park) and turn right onto Mill Pond Road; the parking area is half way down the road on the left.

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

Trails:

November 1, 2003. There is an asphalt walking/biking path (part of the Montgomery Pathways) that goes along the borders of the many soccer fields in the park. Part of the way the path goes parallel with Dead Tree Run. The trail ends at River Road near the Millstone River. Mill Pond itself is located across Mill Pond Road from the park.

PLANT LIST:
Drs. Patrick and Rosemary Cooney
* = blooming on 11/01/03

Trees:
Acer negundo (box elder)
Carya cordiformis (bitternut hickory)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory) lots
Cercis canadensis (red bud) planted
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Fraxinus americana (white ash "Autumn applause") planted
Fraxinus americana (white ash "Autumn purple")
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Maclura pomifera (Osage orange)
Picea abies (Norway spruce) planted
Pinus strobus (white pine) planted
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore) planted
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas fir) planted
Pyrus sp. (crab apple)
Quercus palustris (pin oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)

Shrubs:
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac)
Rosa sp. (big rose hips)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Viburnum prunifolium (blackhaw viburnum)
Vinca minor (periwinkle) planted

Vines:
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Vitis sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Allium vineale (field garlic)
Apocynum sp. (dogbane)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed)
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (ox-eye daisy) *
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)
Cirsium sp. (thistle)
Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)
Euthamia graminifolia (grass-leaved goldenrod)
Geum canadense (white avens )
Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel) *
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose smartweed) *
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)
Rumex crispus (curled dock)
Solidago spp. (goldenrods)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion) *
Trifolium pratense (red clover)
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)
Verbena urticifolia (white vervain)

Sedges:
Carex laxiflora type (loose-flowered sedge type)

Grasses:
Elymus hystrix (bottle brush grass)