Flora and Fauna of Chipman Hill Checklist
Note species with “?” are in the area, but need to confirm whether or not they are found on Chipman Hill
Flora
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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
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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
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Common juniper Juniperus communis above gravel pits
Gray dogwood Cornus racemosa
American Fly honeysuckle Lonicera canadensis ?
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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
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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
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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
