You can sun on glacial boulders and gneiss outcroppings, remnants of the last Ice Age. Red and white oak, chestnut oak, pin oak, hickory and maple, dogwood, sassafras, wild cherry, and winged sumac make up the forest. This trip visited wet and dry meadows and an area of salt marsh. A few of the plants seen were Tall Sunflower Helianthus giganteus, Indian Grass Sorghastrum nutans, Showy Goldenrod Solidago speciosa, Water Purslane Ludwigia palustris, Dwarf Saint Johnswort Hypericum mutilum, New England Aster Aster novaeangliae, Gamma Grass Tripsacum dactyloides, Poverty Grass Aristida dichotoma, Saw Osprey, Kestrel, Merlin, and a Barn Owl. This fine park has lost much of its best area to the Sanitation Department as a garbage dump.
Unexpected cultivars spring up on dumps.
Leaving the dump we welcomed the fragrance of sweet clover. Fagus sylvatica var.