Invasive Walk, Naples: April 27th 2-4PM

Invasive Walk in Naples with Bruce Gilman

Saturday, April 27 from 2 to 4 pm

We will meet at the parking lot of the Environmental Conservation Office on NY-245 (Rushville Road) just east of Bob and Ruth's on route 21 in Naples, NY at 2 PM.  Bruce Gilman will direct us south along the Naples Creek to identify numerous invasive species. 

If you prefer to carpool from Canandaigua, please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com by April 25th.  We can meet at the Sly Street parking lot behind the county courthouse at 1:15 PM. 

 Proof that we saw more than invasive plants yesterday! 

 I promise I'll be back to caption most of the images.  For now, know that we had a group of seven people and a pup on a cool damp afternoon.  Tim Wilbur of Ontario Pathways and Finger Lakes Trails gave us an overview of the Finger Lakes Trail system.  This portion of the trail is the Bristol Hills Branch stretching from the "jump off" at Ontario County Park/Gannet Hill in the north to Hammondsport in the south.  Bruce welcomed us to Naples and brought us south along the east side of Naples Creek in this floodplain forest.  It is estimated that 1/3 of the flora is introduced while 2/3 of the flora is native to this area.

Mugwort - Invasive nuisance

Box elder tree

Black raspberry

Bedstraw/cleavers - introduced around the time of the Revolutionary War 

Sycamore tree

Bruce shows the hollow base on the sycamore leaf stalk

Garlic Mustard - invasive

Garlic mustard - easy to pull

Monkey face bud on black walnut stem

burr cucumber seedling

Japanese knotweed

Bruce with JKW stalk

red trillium, wake robin, stinking Benjamin

yellow trout lily

 

Species list: (I=introduced, N=Native)    Ajuga reptans (bugleherb) I; American Sycamore N; Asiatic Honeysuckle I; Autumn Olive I; Barberry (aggressive) I; Basswood tree N; Bed Straw – cleavers I; Black Cherry N; Black Locust tree N; Black raspberry N; Black walnut tree N; Blue stemmed goldenrod N; Box Elder tree N; Broadleaf toothwort N; Burr Cucumber N; Chokecherry N; Coltsfoot I; Cutleaf bittercress I; Cutleaf toothwort N; Dames rocket I; Daylily I; Downey yellow violet N; Early meadow rue N;  Eastern Cottonwood N; Elderberry N; European Buckthorn I; Garlic mustard I; Goutweed I; Greater celandine I; Highbush cranberry I; Horse chestnut; Japanese Knotweed (aggressive) I; Jewelweed N; Marginal woodfern N; May apples N ; Mint I; Moneywort (introduced, non invasive); Mugwort I; Multiflora rose I; Myrtle (aggressive) I; Nannyberry N; Oriental bittersweet I; Ostrich fern N; Privet I; Purple deadnettle I; Red trillium N; Saint John’s Wort N; Scila squiIl I; Shining Bedstraw I; Sow dock N; Speedwell; Swamp buttercup; Thistle I; Trout lily N; Virgins Bower (native clematis) N; White violet; Wild black current N; Wild field garlic I; Wild rye N;   Thanks to Betsy Russell for recording.