🌲🍂🍄 Introduction 🍄🍂🌲
For my phenology spot, I decided to chose a location a bit closer to home than most. I chose my lovely little patch of forest not only because it is convenient for a non-car, non-bike owning freshman like myself but also because I wanted to study a place that reflected my everyday environment. I stumbled upon this place for the first time during my second day of classes when I was exploring the bike path on a morning run. Now, I go here almost every single morning before I run to take a peaceful moment to stretch. A couple hundred feet past the start of the bike path to the right of Virtue Field, there is a small trail that juts into the forest on your right. There is a small trail that leads you directly into the middle of the grove where there is a clearing with a fallen tree that serves as a perfect bench.
Vegetation 🌿
The vegetation in my phenology spot is mainly tall deciduous trees like sugar maples occupying the overstory with smaller woody shrubs like buckthorn and sumac occupying the understory. I have not observed much diversity within the vegetation, but I do not yet possess the skills to identify every kind of species or notice differences between similar looking plants. However, I think my favorite attribute of the vegetation is the singular basswood tree near the main clearing in the forest.
Common Woody Plants 🍁
- Sugar Maples
- Northern Red Oak
- Common Buckthorn
- Sumac
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