Spring Flora at Hoxie Gorge
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Hoxie Gorge, a new addition to the Old Growth Forest Network, boasts a diverse spring flora. We’ll see Hepatica, blue cohosh, violets, barren strawberry, a few sedges, Amelanchier and perhaps Trillium in flower. We will follow the Finger Lakes Trail down into the gorge for a round trip of about one mile. Moderate difficulty; the terrain may be steep in places. Meet at CCE at 9 am to carpool. Contact Anna for more information: 379-0924.
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Plant list below. Photos courtesy of Betsy Darlington.
Plants Seen at Hoxie Gorge on FLNPS Walk 4-20-2013
Michael Hough, leader
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Acer rubrum |
red maple |
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Acer saccharum |
sugar maple |
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Alliaria petiolata |
garlic mustard |
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Allium tricoccum |
wild leek |
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Anemone acutiloba (Hepatica nobilis var. acuta, Hepatica acutiloba) |
sharp-lobed hepatica |
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Betula alleghaniensis |
yellow birch |
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Betula lenta |
black birch |
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Cardamine diphylla |
two-leaved toothwort |
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Cardamine pensylvanica |
Pennyslvania bitter-cress |
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Carex pedunculata |
pedunculate sedge, long-stalked sedge |
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Carex plantaginea |
plantain-leaved sedge |
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Caulophyllum giganteum |
giant blue cohosh |
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Chrysosplenium americanum |
American golden-saxifrage |
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Claytonia caroliniana |
wide-leaved Spring beauty |
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Conium maculatum |
poison hemlock |
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Coptis trifolia (C. groenlandica) |
goldthread |
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Dendrolycopodium dendroideum (Lycopodium obscurum var. dendroidium) |
prickly tree clubmoss |
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Dendrolycopodium obscurum (Lycopodium obscurum) |
flat-branched tree clubmoss, princess pine |
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Dicentra canadensis |
squirrel corn |
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Dicentra cucullaria |
Dutchman’s breeches |
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Diphasiastrum digitatum (Lycopodium digitatum) |
southern ground cedar |
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Dryopteris intermedia |
intermediate wood fern |
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Dryopteris marginalis |
marginal wood fern |
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Dulichium arundinaceum |
threeway sedge |
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Epifagus virginiana |
beechdrops |
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Erythronium americanum |
trout lily |
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Fagus grandifolia |
American beech |
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Fraxinus americana |
white ash |
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Galium sp. |
bedstraw |
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Geranium robertianum |
herb Robert |
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Huperzia lucidula (Lycopodium lucidulum) |
shining clubmoss |
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Hydrophyllum virginianum |
Virginiawaterleaf |
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Luzula acuminata |
hairy woodrush |
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Mitchella repens |
partridgeberry |
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Oxalis montana (Oxalis acetosella) |
common wood-sorrel |
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Polystichum acrostichoides |
Christmas fern |
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Prunus serotina |
black cherry |
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Quercus rubra (Q. borealis) |
northern red oak |
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Ranunculus sp. |
buttercup |
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Taxus canadensis |
American yew |
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Tiarella cordifolia |
heart-leaved foamflower |
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Trillium erectum |
red trillium |
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Trillium grandiflorum |
large-flowered white trillium |
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Veratrum viride |
false helibore |
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Viburnum lantanoides (V. alnifolium) |
hobble bush |
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Vinca minor |
periwinkle, myrtle |
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Viola rotundifolia |
round-leaved yellow violet |
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Waldsteinia fragaroides |
barren strawberry |
