MacMahon Road

MacMahon Road is a small flat-bottomed valley in a small stream draining directly to Lake Champlain. The periphery of the are has a closed canopy woodland and minimal shrub and herbaceous layers. In the center of the area the canopy is much more open and the vegetation dominated by the sedges and grasses of the herbaceous layer.

 Species found at this site:

Scientific Name

Common Name

Acer rubrum  L.  var rubrum

red maple

Acer rubrum  L.  var trilobum

red maple

Acer saccharum Marsh. var saccharum

sugar maple

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 alleghaniensis Britt.    

yellow birch

Betula lenta L.

sweet birch

Carex gynandra  Schwein.

nodding sedge

Carex intumescens  Rudge

great bladder sedge

Carya glabra  (P. Mill.) Sweet   

pignut hickory

Chelone glabra L.

white turtlehead

Clematis virginiana L.

virgin's bower

Equisetum arvense L.

field horsetail

Eupatorium maculatum L. var maculatum

spotted joe-pye weed

Eupatorium perfoliatum L. var perfoliatum  

boneset

Fraxinus nigra Marsh.

black ash

Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh.

green ash

Galium palustre  L.

marsh bedstraw

Hydrocotyle americanum  L.

marshpennywort

Ilex verticillata (L.) Gray

winterberry holly

Impatiens capensis Meerb.

jewelweed

Juglans cinerea L.

butternut

Leersia oryzoides  (L.) Sw.

rice cutgrass

Lycopus americanus Muhl. ex W. Bart.

cut-leaf water horehound

Matteuccia struthiopteris (L.) Todaro

ostrich fern

Onoclea sensibilis L.

sensitive fern

Osmunda claytoniana L.

interrupted fern

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

hop hornbeam

Oxalis stricta L.

common yellow sorrel

Parthenocissus vitaceae (Knerr) A.S. Hitchc.

grape woodbine

Pinus strobus L.

white pine

Populus tremuloides Michx.

quaking aspen

Rubus hispidus L.

bristly dewberry

Salix bebbiana Sarg.

bebb willow

Scirpus cyperinuus (L.) Kunth

wool-rush

Spiraea alba  DuRoi var alba

meadowsweet

Spiraea alba  DuRoi var latifolia (Ait.) Dippel

white meadowsweet

Tilia americana L.  

basswood

Typha latifolia L.

wide leaved cattail

Ulmus americana L.

american elm

Ulmus rubra Muhl.

slippery elm

Viburnum nudum L. var cassinoides (L.) Torr. & Gray

northern wild raisin

Vitis riparia Michx.

riverbank grape

 

GPS coordinates of sampling points

Sampling point

SR1A

e

4891400

n

621322

SR1B

e

4891400

n

621345

SR1C

e

4891400

n

621371

SR2A

e

4891460

n

621333

SR2B

e

4891460

n

621290

SR2C

e

4891460

n

621306

SR2D

e

4891460

n

621279

 

 

 

 

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

This page was last updated on January 08, 2007 .