Survey of Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary


C.  WILDFLOWERS AND OTHER HERBACEOUS PLANTS

      A total of 69 wild flowers in bloom was recorded during the time of study in April and early May. Forty were found in the field area, four in the lowland woods and 29 in the highland woods. A quadrat measuring 4 X 12 meters was laid out in the sunny part of the cut field opposite to the entrance of a feeder stream into Shades Creek (see Fig. 1 Map). The dominant quadrat field flowers were daisy fleabanes, ground ivy and Indian strawberry. In addition, other plants and shrubs in the quadrate and in other areas of the field were noted.
 
Flowers Within the Quadrat
1.  Cleaver
2.  Daisy Fleabane*
3.  Golden Ragwort
4.  Ground Ivy*
5.  Hawkweed
6.  Indian Strawberry*
7.  Square Flower
8.  Sweet White Violet

* flowers that were common
Flowers Outside of Quadrat
 1.  Bittercress, Pennsylvania
 2.  Blackberry
 3.  Blue Field Madder
 4.  Blue Phlox
 5.  Bugle
 6.  Chervil, wild
 7.  Cheese Flower (mallow)**
 8.  Chickweed*
 9.  Common Blue Violet
10.  Curly Dock
11.  Daffodil
12.  Daisy
13.  Dandelion
14.  False Garlic
15.  Henbit
16.  Honeysuckle, Japanese
17.  Hop clover, Small
18.  Kidney Leaf Buttercup*
19.  Lyre-leaved Sage
20.  Purple Dead Nettle
21.  Purple Vetch
22.  Small Wild Geranium (Cranesbill)
23.  Storksbill
24.  Unidentified Umbelliferae
25.  Unidentified.
26.  White clover
27.  Wild Garlic

*commonly found flower
**rare flower
Flowers found inside the quadrat were also found outside the quadrat.

Shrubs and Other Plants Inside the Quadrat
1.  Box Elder
2.  Bush Clover
3.  Grasses (2)
4.  Mimosa
5.  Poison Ivy
6.  Privet hedge
7.  Rush
8.  Sedge
9.  Tall White Clover
Grasses, Privet hedge, and Poison Ivy were very common while tall white clover was somewhat rare.

Lowland Wildflowers
1.  Rue Anemone
2.  Spring Beauty
3.  Toothwort
4.  Trillium*

*commonly found flower
**rare flower
Highland Wildflowers
1.  Atamasco Lily
2.  Blue Phlox
3.  Bramble (blackberry)
4.  Bugle
5.  Cinquefoil
5.  Daisy
6.  Dovesfoot Geranium
7.  Fairy Wand
8.  False Solomon's Seal
9.  Fire Pink
10.  Greenbriar
11.  Hawkweed
12.  Hearts Bursting with Love
13.  Houstonia
14.  Jack-in-the-Pulpit**.
15.  Large Wild Geranium
16.  Lyre-leaved Sage
17.  May Apple
18.  Oak Leaf Hydrangea
19.  Oakleaf Hydranga
20.  Partridge Berry
21.  Perfoliate Bellwort
22.  Rue Anemone
23.  Spiderwort
24.  Spring Beauty
25.  Star of Bethlehem
26.  Trillium*
27.  Unidentified
28.  Unidentified
29.  Unidentified
30.  Wild Ginger
31.  Wild Garlic

*commonly found flower
**rare flower

Spring Beauty
Spring Beauty




Jack-in-the-pulpit
Jack-in-the-Pulpit




Cut-Leaved Toothwort
Cut-Leaved Toothwort




False-Rue-Anemone
False Rue Anemone


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