Foraging Report at the East Branch Nature Preserve

Last October 9th, the board of the Catskills Water Discovery Center hired Laura Silverman of the Outside Institute to take us on a foraging walk so we could find out what we have growing there. We now have a catalogue of 37 species of plants and trees. Here’s the list, beginning with the first plant at the start of the trail, going round the trail loop counter-clockwise and finishing where we started.

Dandelion, plantain, golden rod, garlic mustard, stag horn sumac, burdock, pokeweed, wild carrots, foxtail, mugwort, honeysuckle, black raspberry, wild clematis, sugar maple, quaking aspen, crab apple, grape vines, dock, oak, polypore, hawthorn, mullein, mustard, white vervain maple, cherry, cow parsley or Angelica (undecided as yet), hornbeam, birch, dogwood, Angelica, American elder, box elder, wild clematis, creeping Charlie, hemp nettle, butternut, willow, and dog bane.

As spring continues, we will be documenting all these plants and trees and tracking their progress.

Wild Clematis at the East Branch Nature Preserve