The vegetation at my phenology place mainly consists of grasses and small woody shrubs. My place overlooks a large clearing surrounded by trees, but immediately next to the spot I marked as the center of my place, the trees are either very small or dead.
Some of the trees surrounding the clearing are:
- Eastern White Pine
- Northern Red Oak
- Sugar Maple
- Paper Birch
11/6/23 Visit – Changes
The small woody plants on both sides of the trail have lost a lot of their leaves, and others have shriveled or had their leaves turn brown. Some of the woody stem plants have fallen or look like they were flattened by something. These changes made it easier to see the groundcover between the plants, which was mostly fallen leaves, grass, and moss. Most of the trees in the area have entirely lost their leaves, except a few that are still mostly green, off in the woods to one side of my site.
12/9/23 Visit
The majority of leaves have fallen off the trees at my site. There are a few dead leaves still on a few trees, which are most likely Norway Maple trees. The Eastern White Pines and the Cedars still have their needles. As seen in the photos from my last visit, the leaves on the ground are bright and not decomposed. The leaves I saw on the ground during this visit are all brown and much limper, showing signs of decomposition. I saw some types of fungus, but they were mostly on fallen trees and the wood planks on the trail at my site. The grass-like and woody stem plants at my site look more flattened than the last visit as well.
