Sterling Forest Rifle Range Area (local name for the trail and area north of Bill White Mountain), June 10, 2002/ Rifle Range Area itself on 7/19/02

on Route 84; parking area north of Blue Lake/Cedar Pond area, but south of the Visitor's Center.

Trees:
Aralia spinosa (Hercules' club)
Betula nigra (river birch)
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)
Picea sp. (spruce) planted
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)

Shrubs:
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood) 6/10/02
Diervilla lonicera (bush honeysuckle) 7/19/02
Gaylussacia frondosa (dangleberry) 6/10/02
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) 6/10/02
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose) 6/10/02
Rosa sp. (blackberry) 6/10/02
Rubus odoratus (purple-flowering raspberry) 6/10/02 7/19/02
Spiraea alba var. latifolia (meadowsweet) 7/19/02
Spiraea tomentosa (steeplebush) 7/19/02
Vaccinium stamineum (deerberry) 6/10/02
Vibrunum acerifolium (maple-leaf viburnum) 6/10/02

Vines:
Amphicarpaea bracteata (hog peanut)
Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed) 7/10/02
Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade) 7/19/02
Vicia cracca (cow vetch) 6/10/02
Vicia tetrasperma (slender vetch) 6/10/02

Herbs:
Achillea millefolilum (yarrow) 7/10/02
Allialria petiolata (garlic mustard) 6/10/02
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed)
Anemone virginiana (thimbleweed)
Apocynum cannibinum (Indian hemp dogbane) 7/19/02
Arabis glabra (tower mustard) 6/10/02
Bidens discoidea (few-bracted beggarticks)
Boehmeria cylindrica (false nettle)
Campanula aparinoides (marsh bellflower) 7/19/02
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed) 7/10/02
Chamaecrista fasciculata (partridge pea) 7/19/02
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (ox-eyed daisy) 6/10/02 7/10/02
Cichorium intybus (chicory) 7/19/02
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade) 7/19/02
Cirsium discolor (field thistle)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace) 7/10/02
Desmodium canadense (showy ticktrefoil) 7/19/02
Desmodium paniculatum (panicled tick trefoil)
Desmodium rotundifolium (hairy round-leaved tick trefoil)
Dianthus armeria (Deptford pink) 6/10/02 7/19/02
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane) 6/10/02 7/10/02
Eupatorium fistulosum (trumpetweed) 7/19/02 soon
Eupatorium perfoliatum (boneset)
Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry) 6/10/02 1 in bloom ate wild strawberries lots of them
Galium claytoniana (Clayton's bedstraw) 7/19/02
Galium mollugo (wild madder) 7/19/02
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium) 6/10/02
Geum canadense (white avens)
Helianthus divaricatus (woodland sunflower) 7/19/02
Helianthus strumosus (pale-leaved sunflower)
Hieracium caespitosum (field hawkweed)
Hieracium piloselloides (smooth hawkweed ) 6/10/02
Hypericum perforatum (common St. Johnswort) 7/19/02
Hypericum punctatum (spotted St. Johnswort) 7/19/02
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed) 7/10/02
Iris versicolor (blue flag) 6/10/02
Lactuca canadensis (wild lettuce)
Lepidium virginicum (poor man's pepper) 6/10/02
Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bushclover)
Lespedeza japonica (Japanese bushclover)
Linaria canadensis (blue toadflax) 6/10/02
Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs) 7/19/02
Lotus corniculatus (birdfoot trefoil) 6/10/02 7/10/02
Lysimachia ciliata (fringed loosestrife) 7/19/02
Lysimachia quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife) 6/10/02
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) 7/19/02
Matricaria matricarioides (pineappleweed) 6/10/02
Medicago lupulina (black medick) 6/10/02
Melampyrum lineare (cowwheat) 6/10/02
Melilotus alba (white sweet clover) 7/19/02
Melilotus offfinalis (yellow sweet clover) 6/10/02
Mollugo verticillata (carpetweed) 7/19/02
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel) 6/10/02 7/19/02
Paronychia canadensis (forked chickweed)
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed)
Plantago aristata (bracted plantain)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain) 6/10/02
Polygala nuttallii (Nuttall's milkwort) 7/19/02
Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose smartweed) 6/10/02 7/19/02
Polygonum lapathifolium (nodding smartweed) 7/19/02
Polygonum sagittatum (arrow-leaved tearthumb)
Potentilla canadensis (dwarf cinquefoil) 6/10/02
Potentilla norvegica (rough cinquefoil) 6/10/02 7/19/02
Potentilla recta (rough-fruited cinquefoil) 6/10/02
Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil) 6/10/02
Prunella vulgaris (self-heal) 7/19/02
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (narrow-leaved mountain mint) 7/19/02
Saponaria officinalis (bouncing bet) 7/19/02
Satureja vulgaris (wild basil) 7/19/02
Silene antirrhina (sleepy catchfly) 6/10/02 soon
Sisyrinchium angustifolium (blue-eyed grass) 6/10/02
Solidago juncea (early goldenrod) 7/19/02
Stellaria graminea (lesser stitchwort) 6/10/02
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion) 6/10/02 7/19/02
Thalictrum pubescens (tall meadowrue) 7/19/02
Tragopogon pratense (goatsbeard) 7/19/02 waning
Trifolium arvense (rabbit foot clover) 7/19/02
Trifolium aureum (yellow clover) 7/19/02
Trifolium pratense (red clover) 6/10/02 7/10/02
Trifolium repens (white clover) 6/10/02 7/10/02
Triodanis perfoliata (Venus looking glass)
Utricularia sp. (bladderwort)
Veratrum viride (swamp hellebore) 6/10/02
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein) 7/19/02
Verbena hastata (blue vervain) 7/19/02
Veronica officinalis (common speedwell) 6/10/02

Rushes:
Juncus effusus
Luzula multiflora (wood rush)

Sedges:
Carex crinita (sedge)
Carex lurida (sallow sedge)
Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)
Carex rosea type (sedge)
Carex vulpinoidea (fox sedge)
Cyperus strigosus (strigose nutsedge)
Eleocharis sp. (spikerush)
Scirpus atrovirens (dark-green bulrush)
Scirpus cyperinus (woolly grass bulrush)

Grasses:
Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal grass)
Glyceria striata (mannagrass)
Phalaris arundinacea (canary reed grass ) 6/10/02
Phleum pratense (Timothy grass)
Poa compressa (Canada bluegrass)

Ferns:
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (hay-scented fern)