Eyes of Paint Branch

Inventory of Biodiversity and Significant Habitats in the Paint Branch Watershed

By John M. Parrish, Field Botanist/Ecologist 2001

1.5.5 Little Paint Branch I-95 Bog

WOODY

1. Glaucous Greenbrier Smilax glauca
2. Round-leaved Greenbrier Smilax rotundifolia
   
3. Smooth Alder Alnus serrulata
   
4. Sweet Bay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana
   
5. Poison Sumac Rhus vernix
   
6. Coastal Winterberry Ilex laevigata
   
7. Black Gum Nyssa sylvatica
   
8. Swamp Honeyuckle Azalea Rhododendron viscosum
   
9. Maleberry Lyonia ligustrina
   
10. Swamp Sweetbells Leucothoe racemosa
    
11. Dangleberry Gaylussacia frondosa
    
12. Highbush Blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum
    
13. Fringe-tree Chionanthus virginicus
    
14. Buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis
    
15. Swamp-haw Virburnam Viburnum nudum

HERBS

1. Southern Bog Clubmoss Lycopodium appressum
   
2. Carolina Clubmoss Lycopodiella caroliniana
   
3. Royal Fern Osmunda regalis
   
4. Cinnamon Fern Osmunda cinnamomea
   
5. Marsh Fern Thelypteris palustris
   
6. Netted Chain Fern Woodwardia areolata
   
7. Virginia Chain Fern Woodwardia virginica
   
8. Velvety Panic Grass Panicum scoparium
   
9. Slender Spikegrass Chasmanthium laxa
   
10. Twisted Spikerush Eleocharis tortilis
    
11. Umbrella Grass Fuirena squarrosa
    
12. Small-headed Beakrush Rhynchospora capitellata
    
13. Few-flowered Nut-rush Scleria pauciflora
    
14. Reticulated Nut-rush Scleria reticularis
    
15. Weak Stellate Sedge Carex seorsa
    
16. Tussock Sedge Carex stricta
    
17. Skunk Cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus
    
18. Slender Yellow-eyed Grass Xyris torta
    
19. Long's Rush Juncus longi
    
20. Scirpus-like Rush J. scirpoides
    
21. Diffuse Rush J. diffusissimus
    
22. Weak Rush J. debilis
    
23. A Rush J. validus
    
24. Coastal Tofieldia Tofieldia racemosa
    
25. Featherbells Stenanthium gramineum
    
26. Turk's-cap Lily Lilium superbum
    
27. Halberd-leaved Greenbrier Smilax pseudo-china
    
28. Grass Pink Orchid Calopogon tuberosus
    
29. Little Club-spur Orchid Platanthera clavellata
    
30. Slender Ladies'-tresses Spiranthes gracilis
    
31. Canada Burnet Sanguisorba canadensis
    
32. Lupine Lupinus perennis
    
33. Smooth Tick-trefoil Desmodium laevigatum
    
34. Cross-leaved Milkwort Polygala cruciata
    
35. Maryland Milkwort Polygala mariana
    
36. Marsh St. John's-wort Triadenum virginianum
    
37. Virginia Meadow-Beauty Rhexia virginica
    
38. Red Milkweed Asclepias rubra
    
39. Short-toothed Mountain Mint Pycnanthemum muticum
    
40. Joe Pye Eupatoriium fistulosum
    
41. Vervain Thoroughwort E. pilosum
    
42. Boneset E. perfoliatum
    
43. Bog Goldenrod Solidago uliginosa
    
44. Yellow Sneezeweed Helenium flexuosum