The Timp
Bear Mountain State Park, Rockland County, New York

Directions:

West over the Bear Mountain Bridge; Bear Mountain traffic circle to exit for Rt. 9W south; passed by Iona Island and then a large parking lot on the right for the blue-blazed Timp-"Torne Trail; about 0.7 of a mile south of this parking lot is another, this one on the left.  We parked here and walked north on Rt. 9W to cross the road and head up the white-blazed 1777 Trail. 

Trails:

5/22/2005.  On a day with spotty rain, Phil Duckett, dog Sonar and I walked up to the top of the Timp.  After parking at the parking area we walked back 100 yards or so, crossed the road and started heading uphill.  A ravine on our right and then the ravine on the left.  Reaching the intersection with the blue-blazed Timp-Torne Trail, we turned left (west).   Reaching the Timp we had some great views of the area.  We saw the shelter on West Mountain on our right (north).  Dr. Patrick L. Cooney.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney and Philip Duckett
* = plant blooming on date of field trip, 5/22/05. 

Trees:
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple)
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Amelanchier arborea (shadbush)
Aralia spinosa (Hercules' club)
Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)  *
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)
Ostrya virginiana (Eastern hop hornbeam)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus prinus (chestnut oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Tilia americana (American basswood)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)

Shrubs:
Aronia sp. (black chokeberry)  *
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen)
Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry) *
Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Rhus glabra (smooth sumac)
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)
Rubus sp. (dewberry)  *
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)   *
Vaccinium pallidum (hillside blueberry)
Vaccinium stamineum (deerberry)  *
Viburnum acerifolium (maple-leaf viburnum)
Viburnum prunifolium (blackhaw viburnum)  *

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)  *
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vincetoxicum nigrum (black swallowwort) 
Vitis sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
Actaea sp. (baneberry)
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)  *
Anemonella thalictroides (rue anemone)  *
Antennaria sp. (pussytoes)
Arabis laevigata (smooth rock cress)
Arisaema triphyllum (jack-in-the-pulpit)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Conopholis americana (squawroot)
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane)
Galium aparine (cleavers)  *
Galium lanceolatum (lance-leaved bedstraw)
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium)
Hieracium venosum (rattlesnake hawkweed)
Hypoxis hirsuta (yellow stargrass)  *
Lechea sp. (pinweed)
Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs)
Lysimachia quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)
Matricaria matricarioides (pineapple weed)  *
Medeola virginiana (Indian cucumberroot)
Medicago lupulina (black medick)  *
Melilotus officinalis (yellow sweet clover)  *
Oxalis sp. (yellow wood sorrel)
Polygonatum biflorum (smooth true Solomon's seal)
Potentilla canadensis (dwarf cinquefoil)  *
Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil)   *
Prenanthes altissima (tall white lettuce)
Ranunculus abortivus (kidney-leaf buttercup)
Thalictrum sp. (meadowrue)
Taraxacum officinale (dandelion)  *
Trifolium pratense (red clover)  *
Veratrum viride (false hellebore)  *
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)
Veronica arvensis (corn speedwell)
Veronica officinalis (common speedwell)
Viola cucullata (marsh blue violet)  *
Viola sororia (common blue violet)   *

Rushes:
Luzula multiflora (wood rush)

Sedges:
Carex laxiflora type (loose-flowered sedge type)
Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)
Carex stricta (tussock sedge)

Grasses:
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stilt grass)
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Athyrium filix-femina (northern lady fern)
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (hay-scented fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda regalis (royal fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)