Hackensack Greenway at Teaneck

Teaneck, New Jersey

Located across the bridge at New Bridge Landing from the Von Steuben House near River Road.     

Trails:

Red trail start/end; we picked it up at Clarence Brett Park

PLANT LIST:
Patrick L. Cooney, Ph. D.;  * = blooming on date of field trip, 7/22/2006

Trees:
Acer negundo (box elder maple)
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharinum (silver maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven)
Catalpa sp. (catalpa)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Morus alba (white mulberry)
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Pyrus sp. (crab apple)
Salix alba var. (weeping willow)

Shrubs and sub-shrubs:
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Philadelphus sp. (mock orange)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)

Vines:
Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (porcelain berry)
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Humulus japonicus (Japanese hops)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)

Herbs:
Alliaria  petiolata (garlic mustard)
Apocynum sp. (dogbane)
Arctium sp. (burdock)
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)
Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle) 
Eupatorium rugosum (white snakeroot)
Geum canadense (white avens)
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed)  *
Medicago lupulina (black medick)  *
Melilotus alba (white sweet clover)  *
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed)  *
Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed)
Rumex crispus (curled dock)
Verbascum blattaria (moth mullein)  *
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)  *

Rushes:
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Sedges:

Grasses:
Echinochloa sp. (barnyard grass)
Setaria faberi (nodding foxtail grass)

Ferns and fern allies: