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Geoff Howes

Black Swamp Suite


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blackberry lily
black raspberry black cherry
black oak black locust

black-eyed susan rose
campion poison ivy
orange daylily

sweet mock orange and
downy yellow violet
and little bluestem

bluestem goldenrod
and tall blue wild indigo
and wild bergamot

wild geranium
wild carrot and wild radish
and prickly lettuce

eastern prickly pear
and canada wild lettuce
canada clearweed

hedge bindweed fireweed
giant ragweed goldenrod
horseweed horse chestnut

ohio buckeye
and kentucky coffeetree
virginia creeper

and thicket creeper
creeping thistle wild teasel
creeping juniper

and cutleaf teasel
smooth sumac and rough horsetail
and fragrant sumac

and staghorn sumac
yellow foxtail white snakeroot
butterfly milkweed

and butterfly bush
buttonbush honey locust
bitter wintercress

bittersweet nightshade
asiatic dayflower
purple coneflower

early meadow-rue
and meadow evening primrose
and swamp rose-mallow

tansy black cherry
bear berry and bird cherry
black elderberry

and black raspberry
allegheny blackberry
common hackberry

common jewelweed
common yew common lilac
common lavender

and common soapwort
and common dandelion
and common buckthorn

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common lamb’s-quarters
common milkweed prairie dock
common box red pine

boxelder maple
eastern redcedar rock elm
and red raspberry

scotch pine london plane
philadelphia fleabane
siberian squill

siberian elm
and japanese spirea
japanese snowball

and common snowdrop
narrow-leaved sundrops narrow-
leaf sunflower and

sawtooth sunflower
and grey-headed coneflower
sawtooth cornflower

ashy sunflower
and virginia springbeauty
and virginia pine

and eastern white pine
carolina horsenettle
and red deadnettle

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shagbark hickory
hairy white oldfield aster
panicled aster

flowering spurge
upright yellow woodsorrel
sensitive fern

ostrich fern sweetfern
white campion white clover
and white sweetclover

northern catalpa
american hophornbeam
eastern black walnut

eastern cottonwood
eastern redbud small-leaved lime
eastern skunk cabbage

small-leaf spiderwort
perennial sow thistle
climbing false buckwheat

and hoary vervain
great mullein greater plantain
lesser periwinkle

and giant foxtail
and great blue lobelia
and silky dogwood

and broadleaf cattail
dutchman’s breeches norway spruce
northern white cedar

st. lucie cherry
chicory and chokecherry
and catchweed bedstraw

and spotted knapweed
and american jumpseed
and timothy grass

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bushgrass field maple
prairie clover pond cypress
and sassafras

and nasturtium
shasta daisy russian sage
new england aster

and black-eyed susan
and morrow’s honeysuckle
and callery pear

european beech
and european hornbeam
tropical horseweed

basswood dwarf mallow
balsam fir summer cypress
and autumn olive

oakleaf hydrangea
and mapleleaf viburnum
silverleaf cinquefoil

wingstern gallberry
and lily of the valley
lopseed trumpet vine

and red columbine
and american pokeweed
red clover blue grama

and silver maple
dark green bulrush swamp white oak
smooth solomon’s seal

tall boneset and tar-
tarian honeysuckle
and tree-of-heaven

winged euonymus
velvetleaf and tulip tree
and forget-me-not

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