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Extrapolated
from a list by Karl Anderson
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Assunpink Wildlife
Management Area (Monmouth County) - Much of this site is old
fields, but there are some good floodplain forests and beech-dominated
hardwood forest. Some areas east of Stone Tavern-Assunpink Road have a
fairly good seasonal display of spring wildflowers including nodding
trillium and mayapple; and dry roadsides have trailing arbutus
and fringed polygala.
Double Trouble State
Park (Ocean County) - This is an excellent pine barrens site,
with habitats including old fields, upland pine and oak forests,
cranberry bog, cedar swamp, and savannahs along Cedar Creek.
Turkeybeard, orange milkwort, pitcher plant, sundews, all the expected
heaths, and a great variety of sedges and rushes can be found.
Lebanaon State
Forest (Burlington County) - Another pine barrens site. A drive
from the office to the cedar swamp at Shinn's Branch, and a return past
Reeves' cranberry bog, goes through upland oak and upland pine forests,
cedar swamp, lowland pine forest, and hardwood swamp, with most of the
typical plants.
Wharton State Forest
(Burlington, Camden, and Atlantic Counties) This enormous
state forest includes all the pine barrens habitats and typical plants.
Areas of particular botanical interest include the savannahs along the
Batsto River north and south of Quaker Bridge, and on the Oswego River
upstream from Martha, which have many rarities. and a great variety of
sedges.
Island Beach State
Park (Ocean County) This state park is the best remaining
example of a barrier island in New Jersey, with dune ponds, primary and
secondary dunes, dune woodland, and salt marsh. Beach heather, seaside
spurge, beachgrass, and several species of fruticose lichens are
conspicuous on old dunes. Numerous trails go east and west from the
main park road; all provide a good sample of the flora.
Great Bay Wildlife
Management Area (Ocean County) A drive along Great Bay
Boulevard traverses salt marshes from high marsh to bay shore. In
addition to the usual grasses, one can find seashore mallow, sea pink,
annual and perennial salt marsh asters, salt marsh bulrush, seaside
gerardia, and other species.
Egg Island Wildlife
Management Area (Cumberland County) This area and nearby sites
along Delaware Bay have salt marshes much like those along the Atlantic
shore; but they also have lowland forests with a distinctly southern
aspect. Along Hansey Creek Road, one might find species as water oak,
basket oak, and loblolly pine, growing with Spanish oak, American
holly, and sweet gum.
Belleplain State
Forest (Cape May County) This state park has a mix of
habitats. It includes cedar swamps and poor fens similar to those in
the pin barrens farther north, but also has hardwood swamps,
Viringia pine forests, and southern mixed oak forests.
Other places of note:
Bear Swamp, Cumberland County
Bennett Bogs, Cape May County
Like to suggest an area? Send us your suggestions.
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