Plants of the Fishing Creek Watershed

 

 

 

 

Non-Flowering Plants

Ferns (adder's tongue, grape, common polpody, glade, cliffbrake, sensitive, resurrection, Christmas, spleenwort, bracken, rattlesnake, bulblet, ostrich, royal, cinnamon, Virginia chain, lady, woodsia, marsh, fragile, oak, beech, wood, walking)

Mosses (aquatic: Fontinalis, Fissidens, Amblystegium, Drepanocladus; peat: Sphagnum; woodland: Leucobryum, Dicranum, Thuidium)

Lichens

Mushrooms (king bolete, morels, shaggy mane, horn of plenty, oyster, amanita, giant puffball)

 

Flowers

Daisy
Solomon's Seal
Nettle
Common Burdock
Daffodil
Indian Pipe
Glasswort
Asters
Sweet William
Trillium
Cattail
Common Ragweed
Mustard seed
Goldenrod
Rhododendron
Smilax
Queen Anne’s Lace
Phlox
Bittersweet
Wood Sorrel
Violet
Indian Paintbrush
Coltsfoot
Pond Lilly
Arrow Arum
Smartweed
Crown Vetch
Day Lilly
Thistle
Ground Pink
Marsh Pink
Dame's Rocket
Bladderwort
Mayapple
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Common Flax
Honeysuckle
Wild Geranium
Purple Loosestrife
Barberry
Foxglove
Dandelion
Pink Lady's Slipper
Amaranth
Trout Lilly
Buttercup
Bloodroot
Milkweed

 

Trees

Oak (red, pin, scarlet, white, chestnut)
Pine (Virginia, pitch, white)
Spruce (blue, norway)
Eastern Hemlock
Eastern Redcedar
Flowering Dogwood
American Chestnut
Black Cherry
Locust (black, honey)
Witch Hazel
Hickory (bitternut,
shagbark, pignut)
American Elm
Black Walnut
Red Mulberry
Common Hackberry
American Linden
Catalpa
American Beech
Birch (paper, sweet,
yellow, river)
Sycamore
Tuliptree
White Ash
Redbud
Sassafras
Aspen (bigtooth, quaking)
Maple (norway, red, silver, striped, sugar, box elder)

 

 

Acorn
Amarynth
Alpine Sorrel
American Aspen
American Barberry
American Beech
American Elder
American Mint
Big-Toothed Aspen
Birch
Blackberry
Black Cherry
Black Currant
Bog Cranberry
Box Elder
Burdock
Butternut
Cattail
Crabapple
Chickory

 

Edible Wild Plants

Clover
Chokecherry
Cowslip
Dandelion
Eastern Cottonwood
Elderberry
Field Garlic
Field Mustard
Giant Hyssop
Giant Sunflower
Golden Currant
Ground Nuts
Ground Juniper
Hackberry
Hawthorn
Hazelnut
Huckleberry
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Juniper
Mountain Ash

 

Milkweed
Maple
Milk Thistle
Mulberry
Nettles
Nutmeg Hickory
Poplar
Prickly Pear
Pussywillows
Sage
Sassafras
Slippery Elm
Staghorn Sumac
Smooth Sumac
Walnut
Weeping Willows
Wild Horseradish
Wild Rubarb
Wild Rose
Wild Strawberry