WESLEY HILL
NATURE PRESERVE
with Bruce Gilman
Saturday, August 5, 2017 10 AM
Covering 390 acres with nearly 6 miles of trails, the Finger Lakes Land Trust cares for a portion of the Briggs Gully located at the Wesley Hill Nature Preserve. Join us as Bruce Gilman leads us through the preserve which provides excellent examples of the areas's geologic history and native plant communities. Be prepared for a more strenuous walk.
http://www.fllt.org/preserves/wesley-hill-nature-preserve/
Directions: Travel west on US 5&20. Turn south on Route 64. Turn left onto US 20A. Continue southwest about 14 miles and turn left onto East Lake Road in Richmond. Turn left onto Pinewood Hill Road to Gulick Road South Bristol. Pass Sweetgum Drive and Wesley Hill paring area will be on the right (about 5 miles past turn from 20A).
NOTES FROM OUR WALK:
We enjoyed a wonderfully cool morning with just a few sprinkles. Here are photos of just some of what we saw:
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| Dr. Bruce Gilman, THE PLANT MAN, was our guide |
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| Our sign pointing the way to the RED TRAIL |
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| Shagbark Hickory, 5 leaflets |
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| Bruce tells us about a Canadian glacial rock |
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| Christmas fern, leafs look like small stocking, stays green year round. |
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| Bruce checks out the Hemlock |
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| Cinnamon fern |
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| Lady fern |
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| Sensitive fern |
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| Intermedial fern |
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| Indian pipe / ghost plant |
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| Gall of the Earth |
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| New York fern |
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| heart leafed aster |
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| Bracken fern |
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| Geum Avens |
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| Veronica speedwell |
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| hog peanut |
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| wild basil |
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| wintergreen (dark round leaves) |
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| true and false Solomon seal |
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| Perhaps a gravestone next to a black oak tree |
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| mustard (introduced) |
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| Wild geranium |
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| meadow rue |
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| Greenbriar |
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| heading out onto the mound that was made to create a pond |
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| wild bergamont |
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| Bird's foot trefoil |
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| Bruce shows how Bird's foot trefoil got its name |
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| early goldenrod |
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| grass leaved goldenrod |
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| thistle |
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| Autumn olive (invasive) |
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| milkweed |
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| tasty blackberries |
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| Tartarian honeysuckle (invasive) |
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| ox tongue (leaves that stick) |
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| white bone set, wide leaf and narrow leaf cattails |
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| Bruce explains difference between wide leaf and narrow leaf cat tails (beyond the leaf width) | |
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| Swamp milkweed (pink) |
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| Kathy checks out the sedges |
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| Chicory |
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| small toad in a small hand |
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| baneberry / doll's eyes |
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| May apple / Mandrake |
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| trilium |
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| Gooseleaf striped maple / Mooseweed / ADK TP |
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| Maple leaf viburnum |
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| black fungus |
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| white fungus |
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| fungus that has been nibbled |
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| more fungus |
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| hay-scented fern |
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| Indian cucumber |
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| Interrupted fern |
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| more blackberries |
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| and a slug... |
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| blackberry snack on the mound |
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| Bruce putting his vasculum to use |
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| Enjoying a rest (and a closer look at species) |
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| Burrdock |
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| Big toothed Aspen |
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And a list of species:
Canandian glacial rock
Hop hornbeam/ironwood
White oak
Joe pie weed
Hickory
Shagbark hickory (5 leaflets)
Pignut hickory (7 leaflets)
Blackberries
Hemlock
Indian pipe / ghost plant
Gall of the earth
Heart leafed aster
Geum/avens (rose family)
Veronica speedwell
May apple / mandrake
Hog peanut
Wild basil
Wintergreen
True Solomon Seal
False Solomon Seal
Mustard (introduced)
Wild geranium
Meadowrue
Greenbrier Smilax
rotundifolia
Wild Bergamot
Yellow goldenrod
Birds foot trefoil
Yarrow (white)
Early goldenrod
Grass leaved goldenrod
Thistle
Autumn olive (invasive)
Tatarian honeysuckle (red
berries)
Oxtongue (yellow with leaves
that cling)
Cat tails – wide leafed and
narrow leafed
White boneset
Swamp milkweed
Sedges and bulrushes
Chicory
Baneberry / dolls eyes
Red trillium
Goose leaf, moosewort,
striped maple, ADK TP
Maple leaf viburnum
Indian cucumber
Bottlebrush grass
Bed straw
Dogwood
Hawthorn
European barberry
Nipplewort
Witch hazel
Burdock
Black oak
Big toothed aspen
Christmas fern
Cinnamon fern
Lady fern
Sensitive fern
Intermediate wood fern
Bracken fern
New York fern
Hay scented fern
Interrupted fern
