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Zone 4: Vernal Pond (wet shade) <br />Common Wood Sedge <br />Carex blanda <br />2' <br />May -Jun <br />Fringed Sedge <br />Carex crinita <br />3' <br />Jun -Jul <br />Wood Gray Sedge <br />Carex grisea <br />2' <br />May -Jun <br />Cattail Sedge <br />Carex typhina <br />1' <br />Jun -Aug <br />Nodding Fescue <br />Festuca subverticillata <br />2' <br />Jun -Jul <br />Honewort <br />Cryptotaenia canadensis <br />2' <br />white <br />Jun -Sep <br />Yellow Jewelweed <br />Impatiens pallida <br />4' <br />yellow <br />Jul -Oct <br />Fringed Loosestrife <br />Lysimachia ciliata <br />2' <br />yellow <br />Jun -Aug <br />Zone 5: Southwest CornerlUnder the <br />Basswood (dry shade) <br />Northern Bush Honeysuckle <br />Diervilla lonicera <br />3' <br />yellow <br />Jun -Jul <br />Wild Columbine <br />Aquilegia canadensis <br />2' <br />red <br />Apr -Jun <br />Wild Ginger <br />Asarum canadense <br />0.5' <br />red <br />Apr -Jun <br />Big -Leaved Aster <br />Eurybia macrophylla <br />1' <br />purple <br />Aug -Sep <br />Wild Geranium <br />Geranium maculatum <br />1' <br />lav <br />Apr -Jul <br />Zone 6: Part -Shade Along the Trail <br />Long -Beaked Sedge <br />Carex sprengelii <br />2' <br />May -Jul <br />Awl -Fruited Oval Sedge <br />Carex tribuloides <br />3' <br />July <br />Path Rush <br />Juncus tenuis <br />1' <br />Jun -Sep <br />Swamp Milkweed <br />Asclepias incarnata <br />4' <br />pink <br />Jun -Aug <br />Wild Columbine <br />Aquilegia canadensis <br />2' <br />red <br />Apr -Jun <br />White Turtlehead <br />Chelone glabra <br />5' <br />white <br />Jul -Sep <br />Northern Bedstraw <br />Galium boreale <br />2' <br />white <br />Jun -Jul <br />Wild Bergamot <br />Monarda fistulosa <br />4' <br />purple <br />Jul -Sep <br />Obedient Plant <br />Physostegia virginiana <br />4' <br />pink <br />Aug -Sep <br />Mountain Mint <br />Pycnanthemum virginianum <br />3' <br />white <br />Jun -Sep <br />New England Aster <br />Symphyotrichum novae-angliae <br />5' <br />purple <br />Aug -Oct <br />Blue Vervain <br />Verbena hastata <br />5' <br />purple <br />Jun -Sep <br />Culversroot <br />Veronicastrum virginicum <br />5' <br />white <br />Jun -Aug <br />Golden Alexander <br />Zizia aurea <br />3' <br />yellow <br />Apr -Jun <br />Nannyberry <br />Viburnum lentago <br />20' <br />white <br />May -Jun <br />Highbush Cranberry <br />Viburnum trilobum <br />12' <br />white <br />May -Jun <br />Zone 7: The Northern End of Prior Ave/Entrance <br />to the Woods <br />Long -Beaked Sedge <br />Carex sprengelii <br />2' <br />May -Jul <br />Path Rush <br />Juncus tenuis <br />1' <br />Jun -Sep <br />Wild Columbine <br />Aquilegia canadensis <br />2' <br />red <br />Apr -Jun <br />Northern Bedstraw <br />Galium boreale <br />2' <br />white <br />Jun -Jul <br />Smooth Blue Aster <br />Symphyotrichum laeve <br />4' <br />blue <br />Aug -Oct <br />Germander <br />Teucrium canadense <br />3' <br />pink <br />Jul -Sep <br />Golden Alexander <br />Zizia aurea <br />3' <br />yellow <br />Apr -Jun <br />Zone 8: The Eastern Edge of the Woods <br />Western Sunflower Helianthus occidentalis 3' <br />yellow <br />Jul -Sep <br />Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa 4' <br />purple <br />Jul -Aug <br />Virgin's Bower Clematis virginiana 9' <br />white <br />Jul -Aug <br />Chokecherry Prunus virginiana 6' <br />white <br />Jun -Aug <br />Elderberry Sambucus canadensis 10, <br />white <br />Jun -Aug <br />Nannyberry Viburnum lentago 20' <br />white <br />May -Jun <br />Key: Grasses/Sedges/Rushes, Shrubs <br />Ecological Benefit of Various Species <br />Wild Columbine <br />nectar/pollen: feed hummingbirds (on their northward migration), queen bumble bees, <br />small sweat bees <br />foliage: Columbine Duskywing Butterfly, Columbine Borer Moth, Columbine Sawfly <br />Big -Leaf Aster <br />nectar/pollen: bumble bees, yellow -faced bees, long -horned bees, green sweat bees, <br />small sweat bees, mining bees, syrphid <br />flies <br />foliage: Silvery Checkerspot, Pearl Crescentspot Butterfly, Goldenrod Hooded Owlet <br />9 <br />