Medeiros Family Preserve - Late Summer

The Medeiros Family Wildlife Preserve can be reached from Richardson Avenue. We walked along the access road for the powerlines and the railroad tracks in late summer.

view of the road into the Medeiros Preserve milkweed pod jewel weed often grows near poison ivy and the sap soothes the poison ivy rash lance leaved goldenrod meadow goldenrod Pennsylvania smartweed black cherry or buckthorn? Aronia melanocarpa or black chokecherry - not chokecherry Prunus virginiana looking down on Joe Pye weed ? Can you help ? red cedar nodding ladie's tresses - a wild orchid are tiny and along the roadside common tansy tansy gone by heath aster purple loosestrife is an introduced species a sedge spotted knapweed hayscented fern sensitive fern Virginia creeper butter and eggs Queen Anne's lace or wild carrot thistle blooming and gone to seed yellow wild indigo ? Can you help ? ? Can you help ?