Cons Bio Field Practical

Sugar Maple; Opposite branches, U-shape in leaf

Red pine; Reddish bark and bundles of 2 needles

White pine; needles of 5

Tamarack; Tufts of needles, in like 15-20 number clump

Forget-me-not; Little blue flowers with orange/yellow center

Leafy Spurge; Milky sap, alternating narrow levaes, tiny yellowish-green flowers

Tall Buttercup; Shiny, bright yellow flowers

Hoary Alyssum; White flowers, narrow leaves,

Sweet Fern; its a shrub, not a true fern. Distinguished by deeply lobed, fern-like leaves, fuzzy burr like seeds and if spicy, aromatic fragrance when leaves are crushed

Wintergreen; sometimes have red berries

Star Flower; Star like white flowers

Canada Mayflower; Parallel veined leaves, ground cover

Indian Cucumber Root; Two tiered stem

Bull Thistle

Tufted Loosestrife; stalkless, lance shaped leaves. small, fuzzy yellow flowers

Wormwood

Baby’s Breath

Pitcher’s Thistle

Wild Sarsaparilla; Has 5 leaves

Gallium/Sweet Woodruff

Bracken Fern

Interrupted Clubmoss

New York Fern; More delicate and tapers at the end

Cinnamon Fern

Common Green Shield Lichen

Field Horsetail

Garter Snake

Ring necked snake

Eastern tiger swallow

Red-spotted purple

Black Capped Chickadee

Golden Crowned Kinglet

Nashville warbler

Red Bellied woodpecker

American Robin

Common Grackle

American Goshawk

Kirtland’s Warbler

Orchard Oriole

Prothonotary Warbler

Black-crowned night heron

Piping Plover

Black Tern

Double Crested Comorant

Spotted Sand piper

Western cattle egret

Pied Billed Grebe

American Coot

Red fox

White tailed deer