Ithaca Flora

NYFA Field Trip to the Ithaca Area

9 June 2002

Photo credits: Stephen M. Young and Troy Weldy, NY Natural Heritage Program

Introduction to site

Start of climb up talus slope

Group I starts up slope

Glade fern (Diplazium pycnocarpon)

Studying cliff plants

Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

Bird's-eye primrose (Primula mistassinica)

Bird's-eye primrose (Primula mistassinica)

Bird's-eye primrose (Primula mistassinica)

Cliff community

Tony Ingraham studying cliff plants

Return trip

Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)

Deerberry (Vaccinium stamineum)

Group picture at falls

Part II: South Hill

Clubrush (Scirpus verecundus aka Trichophorum planifolium)

Clubrush (Scirpus verecundus aka Trichophorum planifolium)

Yellow stargrass (Hypoxis hirsuta)

Yellow stargrass (Hypoxis hirsuta)

Carex flaccosperma var. glaucodea

Carex flaccosperma var. glaucodea

Carex granularis and Carex flaccosperma var. glaucodea

Carex willdenowii and Carex flaccosperma var. glaucodea

Carex willdenowii

Carex willdenowii

Carex willdenowii

South Hill understory

South Hill understory