Weed Watchers Update Summer 2010

Furnace Pond

Data and sites for weed identification on June 30, 2010

Furnace Pond Weed Data

Sample Site #

Area covered

Cat Tail (Typha)

Purple Loosestrif

e (Lythrum salicaria)

Pickeral weed

(Pontederia cordata)

Coomon Reed

(Phragmites

australis)

Wild Celery (Vallisneria americana)

Bushy Pondweed

(Najas)

1 10 ft X

2 20 ft X

3 10 ft X

4 5 ft X

5 100 ft X

6 20 ft X

7 20 ft X

8 100 ft X

9 150/20 ft X X

10 20/20 ft X X

11 30 ft X

12 multiple clumps

X

13 10/10 ft X X

14 10 ft X

15 5 ft X

16 2 miles X X X

17 1000 ft X

18 20 ft X

19 10 ft X

20 10/10/10 ft X X X

1A X X

Weeds identified on Furnace Pond June 30, 2010

Images of Weeds from Furnace Pond

Furnace

Images of Weeds from Furnace Pond

Oldham Pond

Data and sites for weed identification on June 30, 2010

Oldham Pond Weed Data

Area covered

Fanwart (Cabomba carolinian

a)

Purple Loosestrif

e (Lythrum salicaria)

Mussel Eastern Elliptio

Waterweed (Elodea canadensi

s)

Coontail (Ceratophyllum)

1 X

2 X

3 X

4 X X

Weeds identified on Oldham Pond June 30, 2010

Images of Weeds from Oldham Pond

Images of Weeds from Oldham Pond

Stetson Pond

Data and sites for weed identification on June 21, 2010

TEMP 78 degrees

Stetson Pond Weed Data

Sample Site # Area covered Cat Tail (Typha)Ribbonleaf pond weed(Potamogenton epihydrus)

Pickeral weed (Pontederia

cordata)

Softstem Bulrush ( Scirpus

tabemaemontani)

Common Bladerwort (Utriculariavulgaris)

Bushy Pondweed (Najas)

1 X X X

2 X X

3 X X X

4 X submerged X

5 X X

6 X X emergent X

7 X

Weeds identified on Stetson Pond June 21, 2010

Stetson Pond Weed Data

• No images from Stetson at the present time

Weed Watching Thanks

• Stetson Jim McLarnon and Bill Isenberg

• Furnace Rick Cavilla and Brian Shea

• Oldham Bob Buckley