OLD FARMS PRESERVE: PLANT AND ANIMAL INVENTORY

 

Compiled by: Gail Collins and Jeanné Chesanow, Eric Nelson and Marty Moore

 

 

 

 

TREES

 

 

quaking aspen, American beech, black birch, grey birch, red cedar, black cherry,

Flowering dogwood, elm, Eastern hemlock, shagbark hickory, common juniper,

red maple, sugar maple, red oak, black oak, sassafras,  witch-hazel

 

SHRUBS

ground cedar,  autumn olive (Eleagnus umbellatus) , bayberry, blackberry

highbush blueberry, common elderberry, honeysuckle,  multiflora rose,

Virginia rose, staghorn sumac, maple-leaved virburnum, Viburnum dentatum (northern arrowwood), burning bush, spirea (steeplebush)

 

VINES

fox grapes,  Virginia creeper, poison ivy, Oriental bittersweet

 

HERBACEOUS PLANTS

wood anemone, rue anemone, asters, bedstraws, wood betony, bloodroot (Indian),

bluets, kidney-leaved buttercup, wood aster, wild carrot, common chickweed,

common cinquefoil, rabbits foot clover, red clover, white clover, coltsfoot, ox-eye daisy,

dandelion, curled dock, dogbane, Dutchmen’s breeches, pearly everlasting, Carolina cranesbill, wild geranium, slender gerardia, goldenrods, king devil hawkweed, heal-all,

round-leaved hepatica, trout lily, wild lily of the valley, whorled loosestrife,

common mullein,  partridgeberry, common plantains, English plantain, common evening primrose, ragweed, rattlebox, common reed,  false Solomon’s seal,

true Solomon’s seal, birdseye speedwell, common wild strawberry woodland sunflower,

blue toadflax,  sheep sorrel, Pennsylvania smartweed, small leaved tick trefoil,

trailing wild bean, naked tick trefoil, red trillium, yellow violet, spotted wintergreen,

yarrow, sedges, Christmas ferns, skunk cabbage, Jack-in-the-pulpit

 

MAMMALS

Eastern chipmunk, coyote, white tailed deer, red fox, possum, cottontail rabbit, raccoon, skunk, Eastern gray squirrel meadow vole

 

 

SNAKES

Northern black racer

 

TURTLES

Eastern Box turtle

 

 

BIRDS

Eastern bluebird, cardinal, grey catbird, black-capped chickadee, brown-headed cowbird, crow, mourning dove, mallard duck, house finch, common flicker,

great crested flycatcher, American goldfinch, grackle, red-tailed hawk, bunting indigo, dark-eyed junco, Eastern kingbird, Mockingbird, white-breasted Nuthatch, Baltimore oriole, owl, Eastern Phoebe, chipping sparrow, field sparrow, white-throated sparrow

barn swallow, tree swallow, scarlet tanager, tufted timouse, wild turkey, rufous-sided towhee, red-eyed Vireo, turkey vulture, black and white warbler, blue-winged warbler,

prairie warbler,  cedar waxwing, American woodcock, pileated woodpecker. Red-bellied Woodpecker, house wren, common yellowthroat,

 

 

 

 

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