Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary
Exploring the fresh water pone & meadow
Silver Maple
Develops cavities for nests
Narrow leaf cattail
provides wildlife cover
Broadleaf cattail
food & cover for water birds
Black Willow
tallest of the willows
Duckweed
Nature’s smallest flowering plant
Jack in the Pulpit
early spring arrival
River Birch
distinctive bark
Speckled Alder
Songbird food
Fringed Sedge
seeds eaten by waterfowl
Wooly Sedge
skippers feed on leaves, birds on seeds
Tussock Sedge
small birds & mammals feed on seeds
Sedge
habitat for song birds
Fox Sedge
staple for birds & butterflies
Lurid Sedge
used by birds for food & shelter
Black Chokeberry
Songbird food
Button Bush
Foodstuff for ducks
Swamp Thistle
butterflies like this
Red Osier Dogwood
winning plant for winter berries for birds
Silky Dogwood
Songbird food
Thread-leaved sundew
extinct in some areas
Barnyard grass
Birds & Indians ate seeds
Spatulate - leafed sundew
pine lands plant
Long stem spike rush
for waterfowl
Tawny cottongrass
achenes are eaten by waterfowl
Willow herb
herbal remedy
Green Ash
fruit attractive to birds
Winterberry
Birds like berries
Inkberry
Birds like berries
Touch-me-not
humming birds like these
Canadian Rush
wildlife habitat
Slender blue flag
in neighboring states threatened or endangered
Soft Rush
Japanese weave into mats
Cutgrass
food for birds
Bayonet Rush
food plant for butterflies
Fetterbush
not native to New Jersey
Swamp Sweetbells Leucothoe racemosa
threatened in PA
Spicebush
“forsythia of the wilds”
butterfly host plant
Sweet Bay Magnolia
good food source for wildlife
Sensitive Fern
wildlife value for birds & small mammals
Cinnamon Fern
fiddle heads are used to build hummingbird nests
Royal Fern
ladybugs find shelter here
Interrupted Fern
food & cover for birds
American white waterlily
An invasive plant
Arrow Arum
only Wood Ducks like them
Clearweed
Butterflies feed on these
Reed canary grass
invasive wetlands species
Sycamore
tolerant of salt spray, coastal areas
Pennsylvania Smartweed
food source for birds
Marshpepper smartweed
an invasive
Lady’s thumb
an invasive
Purslane
Contains Omega- 3
Arrow-leaved tearthumb
food for water birds
Swamp white oak
provides cover for birds acorns are a sweet treat
Swamp azalea
birds like berries
Beak rush
favors sandy soils
Willow oak
favorite food of birds & squirrels
Pin oak
Acorns enjoyed by squirrels & ducks
Sheep’s sorrel
food for birds & butterflies
Curled dock
attractive to birds
Grasses
cover & seeds for songbirds
Black willow
Indians made red dye from roots
Common elder
berries are rich in
vitamin C
Black highbush blueberry
most common large blueberry
American cranberry
birds like berries
Netted chain fern
can grow in slightly brackish water
Sphagnum moss
holds 20 times weight in water
Skunk cabbage
bad odor attracts bees & flies
Swamp buttercup
Wildflower
flowers April - July
Halberd-leaved tearthumb
Wildflower
late summer food songbirds
Virginia meadow beauty
Wildflower
a favorite of butterflies
Swamp rose
Wildflower
birds eat rose hips
Yellow wood sorrel
Wildflower
bees & butterflies like these
Boneset
Wildflower
attracts butterflies
Blue Vervain
Wildflower
bees & butterflies like these
Freshwater Pond & Meadow Plants
