Delaware River Park
end of McKeen St, Phillipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey

Directions:

US 78 west; exit 3; Route 122 (New Brunswick Avenue) west; Route 122 changes name to South Main Street; end of 122; pick up Route 678 (South Main Street); turn left onto McKeen Street after passing a middle school.  (There is an entrance at the end of McKeen Street; or at end of McKeen turn right onto Howard Street; at the end of the road is Phillisburg Pistol Club; turn left and head into the park with a football field, tennis courts and a baseball field. The park is blocked from the Delaware River by a fence and then railroad tracks.)

The area below the park (entrance at end of McKeen Street) is largely a waste area. There is an abandoned gravelly road. The road is behind Zappa Plastics, Inc.

PLANT LIST: 
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney, * = blooming on date of field trip, 4/13/06

Trees: 
Acer negundo (box elder) * 
Acer platanoides (Norway maple) * 
Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven) 
Betula populifolia (gray birch) 
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar) 
Pinus strobus (white pine) (planted) 
Salix sp. (willow)

Shrubs and sub-shrubs: 
Buddleja davidii (butterfly bush) 
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow’s honeysuckle) 
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac) 
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose) 
Rubus pheonicolasius (wineberry)

Vines: 
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle) 
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs: 
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) 
Allium vineale (field garlic) 
Arctium sp. (burdock) 
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort) 
Cardamine hirsuta (hairy bittercress) * 
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed) 
Galium aparine (cleavers) 
Glechoma hederacea (gill-over-the-ground) * 
Lamium purpureum (purple dead nettle) 
Nepeta cataria (catnip) 
Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose) 
Ranunculus abortivus (kidney-leaved crowfoot) * 
Stellaria media (common chickweed) * 
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion) * 
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein) 
Veronica persica (Persian speedwell) *

Grasses: 
Schizachyrium scoparium (little blue stem grass) 
Tridens flavus (purple top grass)