Flora, Fauna, and Fungi of Chipman Hill

Note that species with “?” are in the area, but need to confirm whether or not they are found on Chipman Hill.

Flora

  • Spring

    • Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis

    • Large White Trillium Trillium grandiflorum

    • Yellow Trout Lily Erythronium americanum

    • Spring Beauty – Carolina Spring Beauty Claytonia caroliniana (most common) Virginia Spring Beauty Claytonia virginica ?

    • Sessile Bellwort Uvularia sessilifolia

    • Largeflower Bellwort Uvularia grandiflora

    • Canada Mayflower Maianthemum canadense ?

    Summer & other

    • Canada Lily Lilium canadense

    • American Lopseed Phryma leptostachya

    • Broad-leaved Sedge Carex platyphylla

    • Wild Sarsaparilla Aralia nudicaulis

    • Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil Hylodesmum glutinosum

    • Doll’s Eyes or White Baneberry Actaea pachypoda

    • Blue cohosh Caulophyllum thalictroides

    • Fringed loosestrife Lysimachia ciliata

    Fall

    • White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima

    • Flat-top White Aster Doellingeria umbellate ?

    • Common Blue Wood Aster Symphyotrichum cordifolium

    • White Wood Aster Eurybia divaricate

    • Large-leaved Aster Eurybia macrophylla ?

    • Bluestem Goldenrod Solidago caesia

    • Common Bracken  Pteridium aquilinum

    • Intermediate Wood Fern Dryopteris intermedia

    • Northern Lady Fern Athyrium angustum

    • Ostrich Fern Matteuccia struthiopteris

    • Christmas Fern Polystichum acrostichoides

    • Marginal Wood Fern Dryopteris marginalis

    • Maidenhair fern Adiantum pedatum

    • Ebony Spleenwort Asplenium platyneuron

    • Northern beech fern  Phegopteris connectilis

    • Common juniper Juniperus communis above gravel pits

    • Gray dogwood Cornus racemosa

    • American Fly honeysuckle Lonicera canadensis ?

    • Basswood Tilia americana

    • Bitternut Hickory Carya cordiformis

    • Sugar Maple Acer saccharum

    • Paper or White birch Betula papyrifera

    • Eastern White Pine Pinus strobus

    • American Hophornbeam Ostrya virginiana

    • Shagbark hickory Carya ovata

    • Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides

    • Bigtooth Aspen Populus grandidentata ?

    • Black Cherry Prunus serotina

    • Northern Red Oak Quercus rubra

    • White Oak Quercus alba

    • Garlic mustard Alliaria petiolata

    • Asian Bush Honeysuckles - Morrow’s: Lonicara morrowii, Tatarian: Lonicara tatarica, Bell’s: L x bella, Amur: L. maackii are most common

    • Asian or Oriental Bittersweet Celastrus orbiculatus

    • Norway Maple Acer platanoides

    • Buckthorn - Common or European Buckthorn Rhamnus cathartica & much less common Glossy Buckthorn Frangula alnus

    • Barberry – Japanese barberry Berberis thunbergii, much less common Common barberry Barberis vulgaris

    • Multiflora Rose Rosa multiflora

    • Wild parsnip Pastinaca sativa

Fauna

    • White-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus

    • Eastern gray squirrel Sciurus carolinensis

    • American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus ?

    • Eastern chipmunk Tamias striatus

    • American Toad Anaxyrus americanus

    • Clouded Sulphur  Colias philodice

    • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes

Fungi