Riparian East, Part 2

Native Plant Species



Species of native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants currently found in the Riparian East Part 2 project area. This area extends  some 300 yards from the East edge of the House Yard to the stream entrance on the Eastern edge of the property. The stream lies to the North of a steep slope comprised of the orginal legacy forest found on the property when we acquired it in 1974. This 5-acre tract was the only forested area on the farm at that time; today, forest comprises some 45 acres of ChicoryLane. It includes Eastern Hemlock, Beach, Hophornbean, and American Hornbean or Musclewood. It  aslso includes numerous herbaceous perenials include Mayapple. Dolls Eyes, and Blacck Cohash.
By studying the particlar benefits  or ecological services (or liabilities) provided by each, we will consider enhancements that might derive from increasing or decreasong their numbers. We will also identify additional species that might be introduced that would extend these benefits/service in specific ways.
From these considerations, we will work toward a plan for making actural changes to the site, which will, in turn, lead to further observation and assessment.
type index common name biological name number note
Trees
1 Alternate leaf Dogwood Cornus alternifolia 10 shrub/tree
2 American Beech Fagus grandifolia 1
3 American Elm Ulmus americana 10 dies back
4 American Linden Tilia americana 10
5 Apple Malus domestica 1
6 Black Cherry Prunus serotina 10 host of diseases
7 Black Locust Robinia pseudoacacia 10 medicinal
8 Black Walnut Juglans nigra 100
9 Eastern Hemlock Tsuga canadensis 1 woolly adelgid
10 Green Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica 10 dieback
11 Hickory  Carya 1
12 Hornbean Carpinus caroliniana 10
13 Hophornbean Ostrya virginiana 1
14 Red Oak Quercus rubra 10
15 Sugar Maple Acer saccharinum 100
16 White Oak Quercus alba 1
17 Yellow Birch Betula alleghaniensis 10
Shrubs
1 Cranberry Viburnum Viburnum trilobum 10
2 Elderberry Sambucus canadensis 10
3 Gray dogwood Cornus racemosa 100
4 Honeysuckle Lonicera 100
5 Multiflora rose Rosa multiflora 100
6 Privet Ligustrum 10
7 Purple Flowering Raspberry Rubus odoratus 100
8 Raspberry Rubus 1000
9 Russian Olive Eleagnus angustifolia 10
10 Scarlet Elder Sambucus pubens 1
11 Silky Dogwood Cornus amomum 10
12 Spicebush Lindera benzoin 10
Vines
1 Cucumber Vine Echinocystis lobata 10
2 Fox Grape Vitis labrusca 100
3 Oriental Bittersweet  Celastrus orbiculatus 100
4 Poison Ivy Toxicodendron radicans 10
5 Virgina Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia 100
Herbaceous
1 Christmas Fern Polystichum acrostichoides 100
2 Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia 100
3 Goldenrod spp. Solidago 100
4 Japanese stiltgrass Microstegium vimineum 1000
5 New York Fern ? Thelypteris noveboracensis 100
6 Purple Trillium Trillium erectum 100
7 Sphagnum? 1000
8 White baneberry Actaea pachypoda 1
9 Wild Ginger Asarum canadense 100
Graminoids
1 Canada Wild Rye Elymus canadensis
Total 44