Scenic Lawrence Brook - Plants: Trees & shrubs

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Aquatic	*Herbaceous*
*Trees and shrubs*
*Vines*	*Ferns and Others*
*Invasives*

Trees and shrubs [invasives are indicated in red]

Along highest section of Farrington Lake

Pink Azalea
(Rhododendron periclymenoides)

Flowering Dogwood
(Cornus florida)

Montain Laurel
(Kalmia latifolia)

Red Maple (Acer rubrum)

Norway Maple [invasive]
(Acer platanoides)

Its leaves look like poison ivy leaves, but its winged seeds are unmistakable

Silver Maple
(Acer sacharinum)

Box Elder, a maple
(Acer negundo)

surface of mature trunk is whitish and flaky

White Oak (Quercus alba)

Big Tooth Aspen
(Populus grandidentata)

Silky Dogwood
(Cornus amomum)

Red Oak
(Quercus rubra

Pin Oak
(Quercus palustris)

Black Oak
(Quercus velutina)

Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium

Arrow wood
(Viburnum dentatum)

Blackhaw Viburnum
(Viburnum prunifolium)

Also named glossy sumac. Leafy membranes (wings) between leaflets

Was already used by native American to treat external inflammationst

Winged Sumac
(Rhus copallina)

Smooth Sumac
(Rhus glabra)

Tree of Heaven [invasive]
(Ailanthus altissima)

Witch Hazel
(Hamamelis virginiana)

Trunk is tall and regular, like a Greek column; bark pattern is fine, regular, like a mesh extended vertically

Also named Sweet Birc, h, Cherry Birch, Mahogany Birchor Spice Birch; broken twigs and under bark have a wintergreen aroma

Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)

Black birch
(Betula lenta)

Matures as a large tree. Invasive in parts of the U.S., endangered in Japan. It was introduced in the 19. c. from its seeds used as packaging filler for chinaware.

Catalpa (Catalpa sp.)

Paulownia [invasive]
(Paulownia tomentosa)

White Cedar in winter
(Chanaecyparis thyoides)

Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata)

Indians used to extract oil by boiling the meat of the nuts.

Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)

also calledb blackgum, pepperidge, sourgum, and beetlebung

Near DAvidosns Mill Pond. Devastated by the blight in the early 1900s, very rare are the American chestnuts that reach maturity

American Beech
(Fagus grandifolia)

Black Gum (late summer)
(Nyssa sylvatica)

American Chestnut - immature-
(Castanea dentata)

Mulberry (Morus sp.)

Black Cherry
(Prunus serotina)

American Hazelnut
(Corylus americana)

Black Locust
(Robinia pseudoacacia)

Invasive plant, native to Asia. Notice the clusters of many small berries.

Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris)

Multiflora Rose [invasive] (Rosa multiflora)

Sweet Pepperbush, Anne Bidwell or Summersweet. Flowers have a sweet and spicy fragrance. Good plant for preventing erosion of riverbanks

Black Raspberry
(Rubus occidentalis)

Wineberry
(Rubus phoenicolasius)

Blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis)

Sweet Pepperbush
(Clethra alnifolia)

Leaves are gigantic (3 feet long, 3 feet wide). What appears to be a leave is a leaflet.

Devil's Walking Stick (Aralia spinosa)

Umbrella Magnolia
(Magnolia tripetala)

American Elder, Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)

Winter picture. Female bush ; most hollies are dioecious (male and females plants are separate)

American Winterberry
(Ilex verticillata)

Blueberry
(Vaccinium sp.)

Buttonbush
(Cephalanthus occidentalis)

hazel alder, smooth alder Alnus serrulata (serrulata=fine-toothed), syn. Alnus noveboracensis

Sassafras [autumn]
(Sassafras albidum)

Hazel Alder, Amooth Alder
(Alnus serrulata)

Autumn Olive [invasive]
(Elaeagnus umbellata),

Opposite leaves, invasive and toxic. (Not to be confused with Elaeagnus spp., w. alternate leaves.)

also named ironwood, blue beech and musclewood. Its branches look like muscles

Bush Honeysuckle[invasive] (Lonicera maacki)

American Hornbean
(Carpinus caroliniana)

Sweetgum
(Liquidambar styracflua)

American Holly (Ilex opaca)