A Natural Resource Management Guide for the County of Morris A ...
A Natural Resource Management Guide for the County of Morris A ...
A Natural Resource Management Guide for the County of Morris A ...
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- CLOSED CANOPY (FORESTED)<br />
PALUSTRINE<br />
Floodplain Forest<br />
Floodplain Forests are considered rare by <strong>the</strong> NJ Heritage Program. They occur in <strong>the</strong> broad flood plains <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> larger rivers such as <strong>the</strong> Raritan, Passaic and <strong>the</strong> Rockaway. These communities host diverse vegetation<br />
with no single dominant species.<br />
Common Trees:<br />
Ash, White Elder, Box Maple, Sugar<br />
Basswood, American Elm, American Oak, Pin<br />
Beech, American Elm, Slippery Oak, Swamp White<br />
Birch, River Hackberry Sycamore<br />
Blackgum Maple, Red Walnut, Black<br />
Maple, Silver<br />
Willow<br />
Common Shrubs/Vines:<br />
American Bladdernut Japanese Honeysuckle Spicebush<br />
Bittersweet Poison Ivy Virginia creeper<br />
Poison Sumac<br />
Wild Grape<br />
Common Herbs:<br />
Cardinal Flower May Apple Spreading Chervil<br />
Dutchman's Breeches Nodding Trillium Spring Beauty<br />
False Mermaid Nyctelea Troutlily<br />
Fern, Lowland Fragile Pale Corydalis Violet, Creamy<br />
Fern, Sensitive Sedge, Gray's Waterleaf, Broad-leaved<br />
Green-Dragon Sedge, Narrow-leaved Waterleaf, Virginia<br />
Jack-in-<strong>the</strong>-pulpit Sedge, Nebraska Wild Leek<br />
Jewelweed or Touch-me-not Sedge, Rosy Winged Monkeyflower<br />
Jumpseed, or Virginia Knotweed Sedge, Stellate Wood Nettle<br />
Black River<br />
* Nor<strong>the</strong>rn Pondweed<br />
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Vegetation