Vinces Ravine
Hawks Schoolhouse Road, Holland Township, Hunterdon County, NJ

Location:

From Route 519 in Milford Borough, drive north and turn right onto Hawks Schoolhouse Road.  We did not know exactly where this piece of land was, but we found a place to park near the intersection with Ellis Road that looked right. 

History:

Holland Township has identified three areas as Natural Heritage Priority Sites.  This is one of them.

Habitats:

forest slope, pipe line power cut, stream

Trails:

5/15/04.  There is an open area heading downhill that is the home of a gas pipeline.  When we got to the stone wall marking private property we turned right bushwhacking parallel to the stone wall.  At a stream we bushwhacked up the hill and southwest to come out at the pipe line clearing.  Walked back to the car.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney
* = date plants found in bloom, 5/15/04; brief visit

Trees:
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood) *
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)
Ostrya virginiana (eastern hop hornbeam)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)

Shrubs:
Alnus sp. (alder)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive) *
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle) *
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Viburnum prunifolium (blackhaw viburnum)

Vines:
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
Actaea alba (white baneberry) *
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) *
Allium vineale (field garlic)
Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the pulpit)
Cardamine bulbosa (spring cress) *
Epifagus virginiana (beech drops)
Erythronium americanum (trout lily)
Galium aparine (cleavers)
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium) *
Glechoma hederacea (gill over the ground) *
Impatiens sp. (jewelweed)
Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs)
Orchis spectabilis (showy orchid) *
Panax trifolius (dwarf ginseng)
Pastinaca sativa (wild parsnip)
Plantago major (common plantain)
Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple) *
Polygonum sagittatum (halberd-leaved tearthumb)
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)
Ranunculus abortivus (kidney-leaved crowfoot) *
Ranunculus recurvatus (hooked crowfoot) *
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Taraxacum officinale (dandelion) *
Uvularia sessilifolia (sessile-leaved bellwort)
Veronica serpyllifolia (thyme-leaved speedwell) *
Viola cucullata (marsh blue violet) *
Viola sp. (violet)

Sedges:
Carex sp. (sedge)

Grasses:
Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal grass) *
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stilt grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Equisetum arvense (field horsetail)
Asplenium trichomanes (maidenhair spleenwort)
Matteuccia struthiopteris (ostrich fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern) 
Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)