Victory Lake Forest
Grasses
- Tridens flavus (Purpletop)
- Setaria lutescens (Yellow Foxtail)
Forbs
- Sisyrinchium mucronatum (Blue-eyed Grass)
- Cassia fasciculata (Partridge Pea)
- Cassia nictitans (Wild Senstitive Plant)
- Lespedeza virginica (Slender Bush Clover)
- Lespedeza cuneata (Sericea)
- Solanum carolinense (Common Horsenettle)
- Phlox sp. (Phlox)
- Salvia lyrata (Sage)
- Veronia angustifolia (Ironweed)
- Eupatorium serotinum (Late-flowering Throughwort)
- Cirsium vulgare (Common Bull Thistle)
- Erigeron philadelphicus (Daisy Fleabane)
- Erigeron annuus (Daisy Fleabane)
- Aster vimineus (Small White Aster)
- Coreopsis sp. (Coreopsis)
- Solidago canadensis (Canada Goldenrod)
- Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed Susan)
- Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed)
- Gnaphalium obtusifolium (Sweet Everlasting)
- Artemisia caudata (Common Tall Wormwood)
Vines
- Smilax bona-nox (Greenbriar)
Shrubs
- Calycanthus floridus (Sweet Shrub)
Trees
- Pinus taeda (Loblolly Pine)
- Taxodium distichum (Bald-cypress)
- Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Redcedar)
- Quercus alba (White Oak)
- Quercus rubra (Northern Red Oak)
- Quercus velutina (Black Oak)
- Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm)
- Ulmus americana (American Elm)
- Liquidambar styraciflua (Sweetgum)
- Cercis canadensis (Eastern Redbud)
- Acer rubrum (Red Maple)
- Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood)
- Nyssa sylvatica (Black Tupelo)
Plants identified by Tanya Brandon, Jennifer Davis, Joel
Foy, John Graham, Marjorie Lester, Jennifer Neely, Deborah Prince, Lisa Saroka,
Jamie Satcher, Jeremy Smith, Carl Tallent, and Carin Whitman. This
is not a complete list of the plant species in the vicinity of Victory Lake.
Specimens were collected by students in John Graham's Biological
Diversity (BIO 106) class at Berry College during the fall of 1998.
Additional survey in the spring of 1999 by John Graham. Most specimens
were collected between the gate near the ruins of the old boathouse and the
bridge over Big Dry Creek at the upper end of Victory Lake.
Last Updated 1 February 2008
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