HOUSATONIC  RIVER WALK

PLANTS FOUND ALONG THE RIVER WALK
* non-native      **planted by volunteers

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HERBACEOUS    PLANTS
 ...
     Three seeded mercury
      Doll's eyes
      Red baneberry**
      Maidenhair fern**
      Agrimony **
      Agrimony**
      Garlic mustard*
      Wild leek**
      Common ragweed
      Canada anemone**
      Thimbleweed**
      Rue anemone**
      Wild columbine**
      Jack-in-the-pulpit**
      European ginger* **
      Canadian ginger**
      Swamp milkweed**
      Common milkweed
      Butterfly weed**
      Heart-leaved aster**
      White wood aster**
      Smooth aster**
      New England aster**
NewEngland aster'Alma Potschke'**
      Purple-stemmed aster**
      Schreber's aster**
      Flat-topped aster**
      Astilbe*
      Lady fern**
      Perennial forget-me-not* **
      Marsh marigold**
      Various sedges**
      Pennsylvania sedge**
      Plantain-leaved sedge**
      Blue cohosh**
      Chickweed*
      Celandine poppy*
      Lamb's quarters*
      Bull thistle*
      Pale corydalis** 
      Honewort**
      Hay scented fern**
      Dutchman's breeches**
      Bleeding heart* **
      Shooting star**
      Toothed wood fern**
      Marginal weed fern**
      Wood fern**
      Canadian wild rye seed**
      Riverbank wild rye seed**
      Virginia wild rye seed**
      Bishop's cap*
      Purple lovegrass**
      Daisy fleabane
      Horseweed
      'Gateway' Joe Pye weed**
      Joe Pye weed**
      White snakeroot**
      Wild madder*
      Sweet woodruff**
      Winterberry**
      Andrew's bottle gentian**
      Wild geranium**
      Herb Robert
      White avens**
      Gill-over-the-ground*
      Helen's flower**
      Sneezeweed**
      Thin-leaved sunflower**
      Jerusalem artichoke**
      Day-lily* **
      Hosta* **
      Waterleaf**
      Blue flag iris**
      Twinleaf**
      Canada rush**
      Ligularia* **
      Twinflower**
      Wild lupine**
      Cardinal flower**
      Great blue lobelia**
      Moneywort* **
      Mayflower**
      Ostrich fern**
      Black medick
      Mitrewort**
      Mitrewort**
      Wild bergamot**
      Daffodil* **
      Common evening primrose
      Sensitive fern**
      Sweet Cicely**
      Cinnamon fern**
      Interrupted fern**
      Royal fern**
      Yellow wood sorrel*
      Pachysandra**
      Allegheny spurge**
      Hairy beard-tongue**
      Timothy*
      Wild blue phlox** 
      Pokeweed
      Common plantain
      May apple **
      Jacob's ladder** 
      Giant Solomon’s seal**
      Solomon's seal* ** 
      Solomon's seal**
      Pennsylvania smartweed
      Christmas fern**
      Braun's holly fern**
      Heal all*
      Mountain mint **
      Thimbleberry**
      Brambles**
      Broad dock*
      Bloodroot**
      Little bluestem**
      Common groundsel
      Bur cucumber
      Cup-plant**
      Hedge mustard*
      False Solomon's seal**
      Starry false Solomon's seal**
      Nightshade*
      Common nightshade*
      Wreath goldenrod**
      Canada goldenrod**
      Early goldenrod
      Common sow thistle*
      Indian grass**
      Celandine poppy* **
      Dandelion*
      Early meadow rue**
      Foamflower**
      Virginia knotweed
      Clover
      Trillium**
      Globe flower**
      Stinging nettle**
      Large-flowered bellwort**
      Mullein*
      Blue vervain**
      Culver's-root**
      Periwinkle* **
      Fringed violet**
      Labrador violet**
      Barren strawberry**
      Golden-alexander**
      
      .
...
      Acalypha virginica
      Actaea pachypoda
      Actaea rubra
      Adiantum pedatum
      Agrimonia sp.
      Agrimonia gryposepala
      Alliaria petiolata
      Allium tricoccum  
      Ambrosia artemisiifolia
      Anemone canadense
      Anemone virginica
      Anemonella thalictroides 
      Aquilegia canadense
      Arisaema triphyllum
      Asarum europaeum
      Asarum canadense
      Asclepias incarnata
      Asclepias syriaca
      Asclepias tuberosa
      Aster cordifolius
      Aster divaricatus
      Aster laevis
      Aster novae-angliae
      Aster novae-angliae
       Aster puniceus
      Aster schreberi
      Aster umbellatus
      Astilbe
      Athyrium filix-femina
      Brunnera macrophylla
      Caltha palustris 
      Carex sp.
      Carex pensylvanica
      Carex plantaginea
      Caulophyllum thalictroides 
      Cerastium vulgatum
      Chelidonium majus
      Chenopodium album
      Circium vulgare
      Corydalis sempervirens
      Cryptotaenia canadense
      Dennstaedtia punctilobula
      Dicentra cucullaria 
      Dicentra eximia
      Dodecatheon meadia
      Dryopteris carthusiana
      Dryopteris marginalis
      Dryopteris sp.
      Elymus canadense
      Elymus riparius
      Elymus virginicus
      Epimedium
      Eragrostis spectabilis
      Erigeron annuus
      Erigeron canadense
      Eupatorium maculatum
      Eupatorium purpureum
      Eupatorium rugosum
      Galium mollugo
      Galium odoratum 
      Gaultheria procumbens
      Gentiana andrewsii
      Geranium maculatum
      Geranium robertianum
      Geum canadense
      Glechoma hederacea
      Helenium autumnale
      Helenium autumnale 'Kanarie'
      Helianthus decapetalus
      Helianthus tuberosus
      Hemerocallis fulva
      Hosta
      Hydrophyllum virginianum
      Iris versicolor
      Jeffersonia diphylia
      Juncus canadense
      Ligularia
      Linnaea borealis
      Lupinus perennis
      Lobelia cardinalis
      Lobelia siphilitica      
      Lysimachia nummularia
      Maianthemum canadense
      Matteuccia struthiopteris
      Medicago lupulina
      Mitella diphylla
      Mitella breweri
      Monarda fistulosa
      Narcissus sp.
      Oenothera biennis
      Onoclea sensilbilis
      Osmorhiza claytonii
      Osmunda cinnamomea
      Osmunda claytoniana
      Osmunda regalis
      Oxalis europaea
      Pachysandra allegheniensis
      Pachysandra procumbens
      Penstemon hirsutus
      Phleum pratense
      Phlox divaricata
      Phytolacca americana
      Plantago major
      Podophyllum peltatum
      Polemonium reptans
      Polygonatum biflorum
      Polygonatum oderatum
      Polygonatum pubescens 
      Polygonum pensylvanicum 
      Polystichum acrostichoides
      Polystichum braunii 
      Prunella vulgaris
      Pycnanthemum muticum
      Rubus odoratus
      Rubus sp.
      Rumex obtusifolius
      Sanguinaria canadense
      Schizachyrium scoparium
      Senecio vulgaris
      Sicyos angulatus
      Silphium perfoliatum
      Sisymbrium officinale
      Smilacina racemosa
      Smilacina stellata
      Solanum dulcamara
      Solanum nigrum
      Solidago caesia
      Solidago canadense
      Solidago juncea
      Sonchus oleraceus
      Sorghastrum nutans
      Stylophorum diphyllum
      Taraxacum officinale
      Thalictrum dioicum
      Tiarella cordifolia
      Tovara virginiana
      Trifolium
      Trillium grandiflorum
      Trollius laxus
      Urtica dioica
      Uvularia grandiflora
      Verbascum thapsus
      Verbena hastata
      Veronicastrum virginicum
      Vinca minor
      Viola fimbriatula
      Viola labradorica
      Waldsteinia ternata 
      Zizia aurea
    
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'NATIVE NATIVES' 
(propagated from seed or cuttings collected locally)       
      Striped maple**
      Red maple**
     Silver maple**
      Agrimony**
      Shadbush
      Thimbleweed**
      Purple-stem Angelica**
      Wild columbine**
      Wild sarsaparilla**
      Jack-in-the-pulpit**
      Jack-in-the-pulpit**
      Black chokeberry**
      American ginger**
      Butterfly weed**
      Whorled wood aster**
      Whorled wood aster**
     Blue heart-leaved aster**
      Blue heart-leaved aster**
      White wood aster**
     White wreath aster
      Calico aster**
      Calico aster**
      Large-leaf aster**
      Schreber's aster**
      Aster**
      Sweet birch**
      Bur marigold**
      Marsh marigold**
      Plantain-leaved sedge**
      Plantain-leaved sedge**
      Shagbark hickory**
      Blue cohosh**
      Clematis**
      Grey dogwood**
      Red twigged dogwood**
      Honewort**
      Hay scented fern**
      Riverbank wild rye**
      Fleabane**
      Boneset**
      Boneset**
      White snakeroot**
      White snakeroot**
      White snakeroot**
      White avens**
      White avens**
      Wild geranium**
      Sneezeweed**
      Thin-leaved sunflower**
      Bottle brush grass
      Waterleaf**
      Waterleaf**
      Waterleaf**
      Blue flag iris**
      Cardinal flower**
      Wild Bergamot**
      Sweet Cicely** 
      Virginia creeper**
      Hairy beard-tongue**
      Pokeweed**
      Clearweed seed**
      Clearweed seed**
      Giant Solomon's seal
      Cottonwood
      Gall-of-the-earth**  
      Gall-of-the-earth**
      Bracken fern**
      Thimbleberry**  
      Dwarf raspberry 
      Peach-leaved  willow**
      Heart-leaved willow**
      Elderberry**
      Purple oats**
      Carpenter's square**
      False Solomon's Seal
      False Solomon's Seal
      Wreath goldenrod
      Early goldenrod**
        Early goldenrod**
      Zig-zag goldenrod**
      Rough goldenrod**
      Tall meadow rue**
      Tall meadow rue**
      Jumpseed**
      Starflower**
      Common cattail **
      Elm**
      Vervain**
      Ovate-leaved violet**
      Golden-alexander**
     'Brock-Monterey'
     'Fadding-Glendale'
     'Fernside Rd-Tyringham'
      'Ben's Spring-Alford'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Lord/Douillet-Housatonic'
      'Fadding-West Stockbridge'
      'Saymond-Richmond'
      'Fowle/Schroeder-Housatonic'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'Feick-Richmond'
      'Fadding-West Stockbridge'
      'River Walk'
      'River Walk'
      'Douillet-Housatonic'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Lanes Quarry-W Stockbridge'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Lahey Cross Rd-Glendale'
      'Lahey Cross Rd-Glendale'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'Laurel Hill'
      'Route 7-Stockbridge'
      'Glendale'
      'River Walk'
      'Weatherbee-Williamstown'
      'Chesterwood-Glendale'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Division St-Alford'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Weatherbee-Williamstown'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Fadding-West Stockbridge'
      'Palumbo-Sheffield'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'River Walk'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'River Walk'
      'Rose-Alford'
      'Housatonic Railroad-Glendale'
      'Fadding-Glendale'
      'Simon's Dike-Sheffield'