FREC TAXA

Christmas Fern A

Polystichum Acrostichoides

native; retains its green color through much of the year; is resistant to deer;
found in wet areas

Sensitive Fern

Onoclea Sensibilis

Hay-scented fern

Sitobolium Punctilobulum

grey dogwood

cornus racemosa

Silky dogwood A

Swida amomumnative

white flowers; fruits are blue; excellent food for migratory songbirds;
habitat is meadows, fields and wetland margins

red-osier dogwood 

cornus sericea 

wild grape

vitis spp.

nanny berry

viburnum lentago

prickly ash A

Zanthoxylum Americanum

native to Eastern U.S.; known as toothache tree as people chew the twigs to
ease tooth pain; barbed stems and opposite leaves; red berries

goldenrod 

soldiago spp. 

dolls-eye/white baneberry 

actaea pachypoda 

joe-pye weed 

eutrochium purpureum 

Queens annes lace/ wild carrot A

Daucus Carota

introduced; medicinal herb; ancestor to cultivated carrot; habitat is meadows
and fields; flower is white and sometimes has dot in center

New England American-aster

symphyotrichum novae-angilae

milkweed

asclepias spp.

chicory

chichorium intybus

white turtlehead A

chelone glabra

native; habitat is wetland margins; attractive to hummingbirds and bumblebees;
leaves are simple and opposite; petals are fused into a cup or tube

red clover

trifolium pratense

jewel-weed

impatiens capensis

black rasberry

rubus spp.

poison-ivy A

toxicodendron radicans 

native; can be shrub or vine; leaf is compound; leaves are shiny, toothed,
grouped in threes and drop in winter; occurs in wetlands; fruit eaten by deer and
birds

self-heal

prunus vulgaris

wood horsetail

equisetum sylvaticum

cattail

typha latifolia

marsh sedge A

carex spp,

native; "sedges have edges" - the best way to distinguish from grasses, whose
stems are round; found in wetlands

sugar maple

acer saccharum

tamarack/larch 

larix laricina 

northern red oak

quercus rubra

american beech A

fagus grandifolia

native; beech nuts critical for wildlife, e.g., bears, small mammals; bark is grey
and smooth; dark green leaves have pointed tip

green ash, fraxinus pennyslvanica

black cherry, prunus serotina

paper birch

betula papyrifera

yellow birch, betula alleghaniensis 

native; alternate leaves; yellow/gold flaky bark

eastern hemlock, tsuga canadensis

american hornbean/ muscle tree

carpinus caroliniana

balsam fir, abies balsamea

eastern white pine A

pinus strobus

native; needles are in bundles of 5; once covered New England forests and used
for masts of ships; occasionally found in wetlands

eastern white oak 

quercus alba 

wild apple, malus spp. 

honeysuckle

lonicera spp.

common reed A

phragmites australis

non-native; found in marshes, fens, shores of rivers/lakes; usually occures in
wetlands, replaces cattail in marshes; tall and grasslike but has brown, feathery
inflorescence

japanese barberry

berberis thunbergil

buckthorn

rhamnus cathartica

purple loosestrife 

lythrum salicaria  

reed canary grass A

phalaris arundinacea

native and non-native grass ecotypes; non-native is invasive; leaf blade is long,
florets are reddish white

colt’s foot

tussilara farfara

nightshade

solanum dulcamara

blue winged warbler

vermivora cyanoptera

golden winged warbler A

vermivora chrysoptera 

native to North America; winters in Latin and South America; focal species of
Carse restoration; habitat is early successional forests and shrublands

wood duck

aix sponsa

chick-a-dee

poecile atricapillus

black bear

ursus americanus

red fox A

vulpes vulpes

native; largest of the true foxes

racoon 

procyon lotor 

eastern newt

notophthalmus viridescens

monarch butterfly A

danaus plexipus

native; originally a tropical insect that has migrated north with its milkweed
hostplant; eastern monarchs have 5 generations with the last generation
migrating to Mexico in the fall

honey bee

apis mellifera

swallowtail butterfly

papilio spp.

catamount

puma concolor

bumblebee A

bombus spp.

Native; bumblebees are buzz pollinators and typically more efficent than honey bees in their pollination; several species have been seen in the pollinator transects; notes by their shiny black bodies and yellow hair; do not form colonies 

Beaver

Castor Canadiensis

chesnut, castanea denata

white spruce, picea glauca

weeping willow, salix babylonica

green alder, alnus crispa