Saturday, April 30,
2011 10:00 AM
Alley
Pond Park, Queens Co., NY
Trip leader: Dr. Andy Greller (agreller2@optonline.net)
This site has a wide
variety of beautiful spring
wildflowers, interesting weed species, combined with ponds, and the
local fauna. Bring lunch, a hat, water, suntan lotion, and insect
repellent. Carrying your lunch is optional. (This is a joint trip with
the Torrey Botanical Club.)
Grand Central
Parkway(From Manhattan and Western Queens)
Take Long Island Expressway to Exit 30 (toward E. Hampton
Blvd/Douglaston Parkway. Merge onto the service road of the
LIE
(Horace Harding Blvd). Turn right on W Alley Road. Make a
right
under Grand Central Parkway overpass into the park. Follow this entry
road into the parking lot.
Grand Central Parkway
(From Long Island)
Take Grand Central Parkway to Exit 23. Follow signs for Union Turnpike.
Make a left on Union Turnpike at the traffic light. Proceed until you
reach Winchester Boulevard and make a left at the light. Pass the large
hospital building on your right. Immediately make the next left under
the highway into the park. Follow this entry road into the parking lot.
Sunday, May 15,
2011 10:00 AM
Forest
Park, Queens Co., NY
Trip leader: Michael Feder (mdfeder2001@yahoo.com)
Designed by Frederick
Olmsted in the 1890s, Forest Park is the third largest park in Queens.
We will get a last look at some fading spring ephemerals, visit some
oddball plant populations, see a restoration site that was formerly a
norway maple stand and find good representation from the Apiaceae
family. If you'd like to do some bird watching before or after the
walk, bring binoculars. Forest Park is an excellent place to view
migrating warblers.
Directions:
We will meet at 10AM at Wallenberg Square which is located at the
southwest corner of Park Lane South and Metropolitan Avenue in Kew
Gardens. Take the Grand Central Parkway or Van Wyck Expressway to the
Jackie Robinson Parkway. Get off at exit 6, Metropolitan Avenue. Make a
left onto Metropolitan Avenue. Wallenberg Square will be about
¼
mile
down the road on your right at the intersection with Park Lane South.
Saturday, June 4,
2011 10:00 AM–12:30PM
Tiffany
Creek Preserve, Oyster Bay Cove, Nassau Co., NY
Trip Leaders: Al and Lois Lindberg
The 200-acre Tiffany
Creek Preserve is comprised of several
former estates, offering a variety of ecological communities within a
North Shore oak forest. The trip begins at the 45-acre parcel west of
Sandy Hill Rd, where upland species include oaks, hickory, flowering
dogwood, American beech, and black birch. We will then cross the street
to an upland meadow and woods, where glacially-formed ravines descend
to a wetland community. Highlights should include hillsides dominated
by mountain laurel in full bloom, and a unique opportunity to see three
species of magnolia that occur within the forest – M. tripetala, M.
acuminata, and M. macrophylla.
Directions: From the
intersection of Route 106 and Northern
Blvd (Rte 25A):
Go east
on Rte. 25A for 1½ miles. At 2nd traffic light,
turn
sharp left onto Berry Hill Rd. Continue ¾ mile. Where Berry
Hill
Rd. curves to the left, bear slight right onto Sandy Hill Rd. Entrance
is the first driveway on the left. Do not search MapQuest,
etc.—they all lead you to the opposite end
of the road!
Saturday, June 18, 2011 10AM
Roosevelt
Preserve, Nassau Co., NY
Trip leader: Dr. Andrew Greller (agreller2@optonline.net)
Wildflower walk. LIBS
members only, limited registration. Please call Michael Feder at (917)
714-4461 to register.
Saturday, July 23, 2011 10AM
Christie
Estate South (Muttontown South), Nassau Co., NY
Trip leader: Rich Kelly (vze2dxmi1@verizon.net)
cell: (516) 509-1094
This is a
former Winthrop estate, and the habitats
include mixed upland woods, successional fields, and kettle
hole ponds. There will be a wide variety of summer
wildflowers. Bring plenty of water, suntan lotion, and insect
repellent. This will be a long but easy walk. The
trails may be muddy, but you would have to make a special
effort to walk in standing water on this trip. It would be
best if you could carry your lunch. Please contact the leader prior to
the trip.This is a joint
trip with the Torrey Botanical Club.
Directions:
Meet at
10:00 AM at the parking area for Nassau Hall at 1864 Muttontown Road,
Syosset. By car only: From either the Long Island
Expressway or Northern State Parkway, go north on North Broadway (Rtes.
106/107) in Jericho. Very soon after passing under
Jericho Tpke., bear right onto Rte. 106 which is Jericho - Oyster Bay
Road. Continue north for 2.2 miles and turn left onto
Muttontown Road/Eastwoods Road. Go west 0.4 mile and turn
left at Nassau Hall. If the gate is locked, backtrack a few
feet and take the driveway that goes through the building.
Saturday, September
10, 2011 9:30AM
Hubbard
Creek Marsh
& vicinity, Suffolk Co., NY
Trip Leader: Eric Lamont (elamont@optonline.net)
We will visit tidal marshlands, a tidal creek, seepy roadsides and, if
time permits, an Atlantic white cedar swamp. We should see several rare
plant species and ecological communities, including
Agalinis
maritima,
Bartonia
paniculata,
Carex
collinsii,
Carex
hormathodes,
Chamaecyparis
thyoides,
Cuscuta
obtusiflora var.
glandulosa,
Oclemena (Aster)
nemoralis,
Plantago
maritima var.
juncoides,
Solidago sempervirens
var.
mexicana,
Viburnum nudum,
and the northernmost populations in eastern North America of
Fimbristylis castanea and
Lythrum
lineare. Not long ago,
Helianthus
angustifolius and
Lilaeopsis
chinensis occurred here, but
have not been recently seen. We will see very common coastal plants
(e.g.,
Ilex glabra)
that, in New York, do not occur north of Long Island. Dress for
possibly wet (ankle deep) marshes. Bring water, lunch, and insect
repellent.
(Co-listed
with the New York Flora Association)
Directions: We will
meet at 9:30am at the McDonald’s on Route 24, just east of
the Riverhead traffic circle. NOTE: there are two traffic circles in
Riverhead; you don’t want the one on Route 58 at the
hospital. You want the traffic circle just south of Peconic River, in
the Township of Southampton. Travelling from the west, take the LIE to
exit 71 (Route 24) and proceed east to the traffic circle.
Saturday, October 1, 2011 10AM
Hempstead
Plains, Nassau Co., NY
Trip Leader: Betsy Gullota
Over
200 species of native and non-native flowering plants have been
identified at the 19-acre Hempstead Plains at Nassau Community
College. The native grasses characterizing the tall grass
prairie are
particularly beautiful this time of year. The walk takes about an
hour. Bring water and sturdy shoes.
Directions: From either
Meadowbrook Parkway Exit M4 or Merrick Ave.
north of Rt. 24 Hempstead Turnpike, take Charles Lindbergh Blvd.
west. Turn at first Right into East Parking of
NCC. Go to first
intersection. See parking along fence and sign for Hempstead
Plains.
Saturday, October 15, 2011 10 AM
Caumsett
State Historical Park, Suffolk Co., NY
Trip Leader: Dr. Andrew Greller (agreller2@optonline.net)
This is an all-day trip.We will explore for fall flora and identify
oaks and hickories. Bring plenty of beverage, lunch, insect repellant,
and sturdy footwear. Camera, binoculars and hand-lens are optional but
recommended.
This is a
joint trip with the Torrey Botanical Club.
Directions: Meet at the
parking area after the entrance booth (NYS Park fee may be applicable).
By car only:
From New York City take
the Long Island Expressway to exit 36 toward Searingtown Rd/Port
Washington; merge onto Nassau Blvd/S Service Rd; turn left at
Searingtown Rd; continue north about 1 mile (to the end), and turn
right at 25A E/Northern Blvd/North Hempstead Tpke; continue east on 25A
for 14.5 miles and turn left at West Neck Rd, Huntington; continue
north on the winding West Neck Road for 4.4 miles until you find
yourself bearing sharply right onto Lloyd Harbor Road; continue on
Lloyd Harbor Road until you see the sign for Caumsett State Park (on
your right); turn left at the sign for the park and continue up a hill
after which the road will veer to the right. Go past the guard house
and you'll see a parking lot on your right.
From eastern Long
Island take LIE to Route 110 Huntington; go north until you reach Main
Street in Huntington - make a left; on the third block from your turn
(about 400 yards distance), make a right turn onto West Neck Road.
Follow directions as above.
For links to field trips conducted by other botanical
societies in the mid-Atlantic states and southern New England see Botanic Field Trips.
