Plants of Southern New Jersey

Photos by Renee Brecht

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.