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BIODIVERSITY WALK

With Peter Alden
June 4, 2008

Naturalist Peter Alden challenged participants to identify 50 plants and 50 animals on this walk all of the way around Fresh Pond. Below are our counts. Mycologist Lawrence Millman joined us at the end of the walk with 22 fungus species he had collected for the list. Species are listed in the order in which they were observed within each category.

PLANTS     (* =Invasive Plant)
  Trees
1. American Elm
2. Eastern Cottonwood
3. River Birch
4. Norway Maple*
5. Common Mulberry
6. Ash-leaved Maple
7. Black Walnut
8. Downy Shadbush
9. American Basswood
10. Northern Red Oak
11. Shagbark Hickory
12. Witch Hazel
13. White Pine
14. Russian Olive
15. Black Locust*
16. Upland White Oak
17. Pin Oak
18. Gray Birch

Shrubs
19. Common Buckthorn*
20. Glossy Buckthorn*
21. Meadowsweet
22. Arrowwood Viburnum
23. Privet*
24. Morrow's Honeysuckle*
25. Pasture Rose
26. Japanese Barberry*
27. Forsythia

28. Silky Dogwood
29. Amur Honeysuckle*
30. Staghorn Sumac
31. Purple-flowering Raspberry

Herbaceous Plants
32. Common Plantain
33. Common Dandelion
34. White Clover
35. Garlic Mustard*
36. Mugwort*
37. Tansy
38. Burdock*
39. White Campion
40. Bladder Campion
41. Japanese Knotweed*
42. Queen Anne's Lace
43. Hairy Solomon's Seal
44. Red Clover
45. Birdsfoot Trefoil
46. Winter Cress
47. Virginia Pepperweed
48. Curly Dock
49. Pineapple Weed
50. Bittersweet Nightshade
51. Bull Thistle
52. Oxeye Daisy
53. Jewelweed
54. False Solomon's Seal
55. Yellow Wood Sorrel

56. Canada Anemone
57. Yellow Flag Iris*
58. Common Milkweed
59. Blue Flag Iris
60. Arrowhead
61. Pickerelweed
62. Narrow-leaved Cattail
63. Spatterdock
64. Heart-leaved Aster
65. Greater Celandine
66. Golden Alexander
67. Cow Vetch
68. Sweet Clover

Vines
69. Oriental Bittersweet*
70. Black Swallowwort*
71. Poison Ivy
72. Porcelain Berry*
73. Riverbank Grape
74. Wild Cucumber Vine

Ferns, Etc.
75. Common Horsetail
76. Ostrich Fern
77. Cinnamon Fern
78. Interrupted Fern
79. Christmas Fern
80. Sensitive Fern

 

ANIMALS
  Birds
81. Warbling Vireo
82. Rock Pigeon
83. American Goldfinch
84. European Starling
85. American Robin
86. Chimney Swift
87. House Sparrow
88. Cedar Waxwing
89. Red-winged Blackbird
90. Canada Goose
91. Baltimore Oriole
92. Double-crested Cormorant

93. Common Grackle
94. Song Sparrow
95. Mourning Dove
96. Blackpol Warbler
97. Tree Swallow
98. Yellow Warbler
99. House Wren
100. Downy Woodpecker
101. Gray catbird
102. Northern Cardinal
103. Eastern Kingbird
104. Black-capped Chickadee

Mammals
105. Gray Squirrel
106. Chipmunk

Invertebrates
107. Mosquito
108. Midge
109. Slug
110. Centipede
111. Millipede

 


FUNG I
  112. Agaricus campestris (Meadow Mushroom)
113. Agrocybe praecox (Spring Agrocybe)
114. Coprinus atramentarius (Tippler's Bane)
115. Exidia recisa (Brown Witch's Butter)
116. Ganoderma applanatum (Artist's Conk)
117. Hypoxylon fragiforme
118. Irpex lacteus (Milk-White Toothed Polypore)
119. Lachnellula (=Dasyscyphus) virgineus (Hairy Fairy Cup)
120. Panaeolus (=Psathyrella) foeniscii (Lawn Mower's Mushroom)
121. Panellus stipticus
122. Piptoporus betulina (Birch Polypore)
123. Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushroom)
124. Pluteus cervinus (Deer Mushroom)
125. Polyporus squamosus (Dryad's Saddle)
126. Psathyrella candolleana (Common Psathyrella)
127. Skeletocutis (=Diplomitoporus) lenis
128. Spongipellis pachyodon
129. Stereum complicatum (Crowded Parchment)
130. Stereum ostrea (False Turkey Tail)
131. Trametes hirsutum (Hairy Turkey Tail)
132. Trametes versicolor (Turkey Tail)
133. Trichaptum biformis (Purple-Toothed Polypore)
134. Xylaria polymorpha (Dead Man's Fingers