Riparian & Flood Plain Plant growth along the stream and in the stream valley, including trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses.   Photo by Bob Bingham Riparian Plants of Nine Mile Run Box Elder Acer negundo Silver Maple Acer saccharinum Wingstem Actinomeris alternifolia Garlic Mustard Alliaria officinalis Feild Garlic Allium vineale Common Burdock Arctium minus Catalpa Catalpa speciosa Mouse-eared Chickweed Cerastium vulgatum Oxeye Daisy Chrysanthemum leucanthemum Enchanter's Nightshade Circaea quadrisulcata Asiatic Dayflower Commelina communis Poison Hemlock Conium maculatum Crown Vetch  Coronilla varia Common Fleabane Erigeron Philadelphicus Black Ash Fraxinus nigra Cleavers Galium aparine White Avens Geum canadense Ground Ivy Glechoma hederacea Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos Pale Touch-me-not, Jewelweed Impatiens pallida Everlasting Pea Lathyrus latifolius Field Peppergrass Lepidium campestre Tulip Tree Liriodendron tulipfera Honeysuckle Family Lonicera sp. Red Mulberry Morus rubra Pokeweed Phytolacca americana Sycamore Plantanus occidentalis Japanese Knotweed Polygonum cuspidatum Chokecherry Prunus virginiana Staghorn Sumac Rhus typhina Black Locust Robinia pseudoacacia Multiflora Rose Rosa Multiflora Blackberries Rubus allegheniensis Black Raspberries Rubus occidentalis Black Willow Salix nigra Soapwort, Bouncing Bet Saponaria officinalis American Bladdernut Staphylea trifolia American Elm Ulmus americana Moth Mullien Verbascum blattaria

 

	Crack willow (Salix fragilis), native to Europe, grew at Nine Mile Run as early as 1909.  Illustration from Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, illustrated by Gordon Morrison.
	One of the earliest speciments from Nine Mile Run at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is this Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), collected in 1885.  Illustration from Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, illustrated by Gordon Morrison.