Jamie Philips

Jamie Phillips is a backwater slang of the Main Stem of the Boquet and the adjacent floodplain. The slang is not large enough to provide a break in the canopy of the closed woodland on the adjacent floodplain. There is a sparse shrub layer and a well developed herbaceous layer dominated by ferns.

Species found at this site include:

Scientific Name

Common Name

Acer negundo L.     

box elder

Acer nigrum Michx. f.

black maple

Acer rubrum  L.  var rubrum

red maple

Acer saccharum Marsh. var saccharum

sugar maple

Agalinus tennuifolia (Vahl) Raf.

slender false foxglove

Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fern.   

hog peanut

Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott ssp triphyllum   

jack in the pulpit

Athyrium filix-femina ssp angustum (Willdenow) G.Lawson

northern lady fern

Betula lenta L.

sweet birch

Carex intumescens  Rudge

great bladder sedge

Carpinus caroliniana ssp virginiana (Marsh.) Furlow

american hornbeam, musclewood

Carya cordiformis (Wangenh.) K. Koch

bitternut hickory

Chelone glabra L.

white turtlehead

Circaea lutetiana L. ssp canadensis (L.) Aschers. & Magnus

enchanter's nightshade

Crataegus chrysocarpa Ashe

roundleaf hawthorn

Dichantelium clandestinum  (L.) Gould

deertongue

Equisetum pratense Ehrh.

meadow horsetail

Fraxinus americana L.

white ash

Galium mollugo L.

wild madder

Geum aleppium Jacq.

yellow avens

Impatiens capensis Meerb.

jewelweed

Juglans cinerea L.

butternut

Laportea canadensis (L.) Weddell

wood nettle

Leersia oryzoides  (L.) Sw.

rice cutgrass

Lilium canadense L. ssp canadense

canada lily

Lonicera tatarica L.

tartarian honeysuckle

Lysimachia nummularia L.

moneywort

Matteuccia struthiopteris (L.) Todaro

ostrich fern

Menispermum canadense L.

canada moonseed

Onoclea sensibilis L.

sensitive fern

Ostrya virginiana (P. Mill) K. Koch var virginiana

hop hornbeam

Parthenocissus vitaceae (Knerr) A.S. Hitchc.

grape woodbine

Pilea pumila (L.) Gray var deamii (Lunell)

deam's clearweed

Pinus strobus L.

white pine

Potentilla simplex Michx.

old field cinquefoil

Prunus serotina Ehrh. Var serotina

black cherry

Rhamnus catharctica L.

common buckthorn

Thalictrum pubescens Pursh

king of the meadow, tall meadow rue

Tilia americana L.  

basswood

Trillium grandiflorum (Michx.) Salisb.

white trillium

Ulmus americana L.

american elm

Ulmus rubra Muhl.

slippery elm

Veratrum viride ssp viride Ait.

false hellebore

Vitis riparia Michx.

riverbank grape

 

GPS coordinates of sampling points:

Sampling point

JP1A

e

4904146

n

627451

JP1B

e

4904146

n

627481

JP1C

e

4904146

n

627515

JP1D

e

4904146

n

627524

JP1E

e

4904146

n

627545

JP2A

e

4904206

n

627524

JP2B

e

4904206

n

627511

JP2C

e

4904206

n

627493

JP2D

e

4904206

n

627470

JP2E

e

4904206

n

627450

 

If you have comments/questions, please contact Dr. Meiyin Wu, Dr. Dennis Kalma or Boquet River Association

This page was last updated on January 09, 2007 .