Early summer sedges at Marshlands Conservancy

Trip Leader: Julie D'Onofrio

Meeting Location: Parking lot in front of the visitor center of Marshlands Conservancy (GPS Point: 40.956181, -73.703674, click to view it on Google Maps)

Join the Torrey botanical society as we explore Marshlands conservancy, a diverse 147-acre wildlife conservancy in Rye, NY. We will ramble along the Long Island sound shoreline in search of newly identified populations of rare sedges like Carex reznicekii, Carex emmonsii, Carex deflexa, and more interesting Section Acrocystis members. We will also explore two unique islands containing brackish meadows, high and low salt marshes, and a coastal oak/ heath forest. We will be looking to catch the last blooms of Silene caroliniana ssp. pensylvanica and Oxalis violacea. Expect occasional off trail botanizing, and encounters with ticks as they can be abundant at the preserve. Please bring water, lunch, and bug spray. If you are coming from the city you can take the metro north to the Harrison train station and walk ~20 minutes to the preserve.

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