Welcome to my place-based phenology blog, where I will be keeping you updated through the year and the seasons on a place I picked out in Red Rocks Park in South Burlington. When you enter the park, head west on one of the main trails, it goes through the northern part of the park which is made up of a lot of sugar maples which were a bright yellow as I walked through them. The main trail starts to veer to the south, but at this point, you break off the main path and follow a more narrow path up a small hill that suddenly becomes a clearing looking over the maple forest below. The change is quick, and you suddenly feel like you’re in a completely different place than you were a minute ago. The vegetation and exposed rock give off the feeling that you’ve just climbed a mountain, rather than wandering less than a mile from the shores of Lake Champlain.
44°26’46″N, 73°13’28” W
Vegetation:
- Cumberland Rock Shield
- Rock Spikemoss
- Bristly Haircap Moss
- Hedwig’s Fringeleaf Moss
- Rock Polypody
- Tall Cinquefoil
- Virginia Saxifrage
- Sheep’s Sorrel
- Striped Maple
- Sugar Maple
- Northern White Cedar
- Freeman’s Maple
- Northern Red Oak
- Western Hemlock
- Common Juniper
- Eastern White Pine
The vegetation that grows in this area is able to grow here with little soil since the top layer is mostly bedrock. Since this is the case, the main vegetation in the area is various types of moss, ferns, grasses, and a lot of juniper shrubs of varying sizes. The woody plants in the area are surrounding the clearing and are Western Hemlock, Northern White Cedar, and Eastern White Pine.
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