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Arcadia Creek Plant Data

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Arcadia Creek 2001 Plant Surveys:

Location
Date
Stretch
Riparian Zone
Litter & Erosion
Plants
West end of pond just east of Drake Road 9-4 2 >30 feet to rail road tracks medium black willow (Salix nigra), poplar (Populus deltoides), sandbar willow (Salix exigua), staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), Bebb willow (Salix bebbiana), blackhaw (Viburnum prunifolium), purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), late goldenrod (Solidago gigantea), reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea)*, bristly sedge (Carex comosa), hemlock parsley (Conioselinum chinese), soft stem bulrush (Scirpus validus), Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota), willow aster (Aster praealtus), daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus)

Note: in the above table, the names in bold are exotic plants

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Arcadia Creek 2002 Plant Surveys:

Area
Plant Data
Second Reformed Church Inspiration Walk, mature deciduous and shrub vegeation, area of cattails 6-10-02, sand bar & black willow, cattails, ferns, grapevine, jewelweed, poison ivy, poplar, raspberry, strawberry, meadow rue, goldenrod, grasses, blueberry, dandelion, hawthorn, red maple, elderberry, Geum, violet, skunk cabbage, Joe Pye weed, Virginia creeper, oak, Vinca, wild garlic, yellow avens, rose, Solomon's seal, vetch, Jack in the Pulpit, mullein, iris, Dame's rocket, garlic mustard, honeysuckle, buckthorn, burdock, nettles, wild carrot/parsley
Wetland West of Drake, behind W. Penning and Sons, herbaceous wetland/pond ringed by conifers windshield survey, 6-10-02, sumac, cattail, water lily, poplar, quaking aspen, willow, clover, thimbleweed, daisy, Queen Anne's Lace, dock, wintercress, Virginia creeper
west side of Kendall at Howard, City well field, mowed and wooded area with dirt drive, disturbed, willow wetland where wells drain 6-10-02, hawthorn, clover, curly dock, milkweed, plantain, goldenrod, blueberry, wild radish (or mustard), raspberry, cleavers, Dame's rocket, garlic mustard, grapevine, violet, avens, honeysuckle, rose, buckthorn
east side Kendall at Howard, grassed bowl shaped area ringed by deciduous trees 6-10-02, vetch, wild garlic, buckthorn, willow, Virginia creeper, bladder campion, black locust, black walnut

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