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Plants of Southern New Jersey

                                                                         
Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River & Its Tributaries
Photos by Renee Brecht    Plants of Southern NJ: Home Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River 

Vegetation of the Tidal Fresh Marshes of Southern New Jersey 

Acer rubrum
red maple
Acorus calamus
sweet flag
Aeschyomene virginica 
senistive joint vetch
*Asclepias incarnata
swamp milkweed
*Aster novi-belgii
New York aster
*Bidens laevis
bur marigold
*Calystegia sepium  
hedge bindweed
Cephalanthus occidentalis  
buttonbush
Cladium mariscoides
twig rush 
Clethra alnifolia
sweetpepper bush
Cuscuta gronovii
common dodder

Cyperus strigosus  
umbrella sedge
Decodon verticillatus
swamp loosestrife or water willow

Discorea villosa 
wild yam
Dulichium arundinaceum  
three-way sedge
Elatine americana
American waterwort
Eriocaulon parkeri
Parker's pipewort
*Eupatorium perfoliatum
boneset
Eupatorium purpureum 
purple joe-pye-weed
**Helenium autumnale
sneezeweed
*Ilex verticillata
winterberry
Impatiens capensis
jewelweed
**Iris versicolor
blue flag
Isoetes riparia
riverbank quillwort
Juncus canadensis  
Canada rush
Juncus effusus
soft rush
Leersia oryzoides
rice cutgrass
Lobelia cardinalis
cardinal flower
*Ludwigia alternifolia
seedbox
*Lycopus virginicus
water horehound
Mikania scandens
climbing hempweed
Morella cerifera
wax myrtle
*Nuphar lutea
spatterdock
Onoclea sensibilis
sensitive fern
Osmunda regalis
regal fern
*Peltandra virginica
arrow arum
Polygonum arifolium
halberd-leaved tearthumb
#Polygonum punctatum
water smartweed
Pontederia cordata
pickerelweed
Sagittaria latifolia
broad leaved arrowhead
Sambucus nigra
common elderberry
*Saururus cernuus
lizard's tail
Scirpus cyperinus
wool grass
Sium suave
water parsnip
Symplocarpus foetidus
skunk cabbage
Thelypteris palustris
eastern marsh fern
*Toxicodendron radicans
poison ivy
Triadenum virginicum
marsh St. John's wort
Vernonia noveboracensis
New York ironweed
Zizania aquatica
wild rice

Plant listing based on Tiner's Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States (see Sources, below) and the http://www.plants.usda.gov database.



Image Credits

Image credits, unless otherwise noted:

Renee Brecht, Former Associate Director, Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc.

*Robert H. Mohlenbrock@USDA-NRCS Plants Database/USDA SCS. 1989. Midwest wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. Midwest National Technical Center, Lincoln.

**Jennifer Anderson@USDA-NRCS Plants Database

Line drawings, unless otherwise noted:

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database/Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possesions.

#USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database/USDA NRCS. Wetland flora:  Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Sources:

Newcomb-Jones, Carol. Salt Marsh Flowers of Southern New Jersey. Self-published, 1996.

Stone, Witmer. The Plants of Southern New Jersey. Quartermen Publications, Inc. Boston, Mass. Reprinted 1973 from 1911 The Plants of Southern New Jersey with Especial Reference to the Flora of the Pine Barrens and the Geographic Distribution of the Species. 

Tiner, Ralph W., Jr. A Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States. University of Massachusetts Press. 1987.

USDA, NRCS. 2008. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 12 August 2008). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
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