Natural Resources Inventory

Natural Resources Inventory list was compiled by the Park Naturalist for the Ohio State Parks 2009-2014 cultural resource survey. Information was accurate at the time and some items may be missing at time of inventory.

Flowering Plant Inventory


Native and non-native species found at Malabar Farm State Park

Arum family


  • Jack-in-the-pulpit (arisaema triphyllum) native
  • Skunk Cabbage (symplocarpus foetidus) native


Barberry family


  • Blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) native
  • Mayapple or Mandrake (podophyllum peltatum) native


Bedstraw family


  • Bedstraw (galium)


Birthwort family


  • Wild ginger (asarum canadense) native


Buttercup family


  • Rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides) native
  • Wood anemone (anemone quinquefolia) native
  • Swamp Buttercup (ranunculus septentrionalis) native
  • Kidney-Leaf Buttercup (ranunculus abortivus) native
  • Sharp-lobed hepatica (hepatica acutiloba) native
  • Round-lobed hepatica (hepatica americana) native
  • Marsh Marigold or Cow Slip (caltha palustris) native
  • Black Cohosh or Bugbane (cimicifuga racemosa) native


Cattail family


  • Common cattail (typha latifolia) native


Daisy or composite family


  • Coltsfoot (tussilango faram) non-native
  • Golden ragwort (senecio aureus) native
  • Plantin-leaved pussytoes (antennaria plantaginifolia) native


Forget-me-not family


  • Virginia bluebells or virginia cowslip (mertensia virginica)


Geranium family


  • Wild geranium (geranium maculatum) native


Ginseng family


  • Dwarf ginseng (panax trifolium) native


Iris family


  • Yellow flag (iris pseudacorus) non-native


Poppy family (bleeding heart belongs to this family.)


  • Dutchman’s Breeches (dicentra cucullaria) native
  • Squirrel corn (dicentra canadensis} native
  • Bloodroot (sanguinaria canadensis) native


Purslane family


  • Spring beauty (claytoniavirginica) native


Lily family


  • Bellwort (uvularia p^rj^ma) native
  • Trillium, large white, or wake robin (trillium grandiflorum) native
  • State wild flower of ohio drooping trillum (trillium flexipes) native
  • Trout lily or dogtooth violet (erythronium americanum) native
  • Wild leek or ramp (allium tricoccum) native
  • Yellow mandarin (disporum lanuginosum) native
  • Solomon’s seal (polygonatum biflorum) native
  • Plume (smiladna rancemosa) native


Mint family


  • Henbit or purple dead-nettle (lamium amplexicaule) non-native

Mustard family


  • Spring cress or bitter cress (cardamine bulbosa) native
  • Purple cress (cardamine) native
  • Cutleaf toothwort (dentaria laciniata) native
  • Toothwort or two leaf toothwort (dentaria diphylla) native
  • Garlic mustard (alliaria offidnalis) non-native
  • Winter cress (barbarea vulgaris) non-native


Parsley family


  • Harbinger-of-spring (erigenia bulbosa) native


Phlox family


  • Wild blue phlox or wild sweet william (phlox divaricata) native

Pink family


  • Common chickweed (stellaria media) non-native
  • Mouse-ear Chickweed (cerastium vulgatum) non-native


Rose family


  • Common cinquefoil (potentilla simplex) native
  • Indian strawberry (duchesnea indict) non-native
  • Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora) non-native


Saxifrage family


  • Miterwort or bishop’s cap (mitella diphylla) native


Snapdragon family


  • Corn speedwell (veronica arvensis) non-native
  • Field speedwell (veronica agrestis) non-native


Violet family


  • Downy yellow violet (viola pubescens) native
  • Common blue violet (viola sororia) native
  • Striped White Violet (viola striata) native
  • Long-spurred violet (viola rostrata) native


Willow family


  • Pussy willow (salix discolor)

Tree Inventory


Trees found throughout Malabar’s woodland.

  • Ash, green – fraxinus pennsylvanica var. Subintegerrima
  • Ash, pumpkin – fraxinus tomentosa
  • Buckthorn, european alder – rhamnus frangula
  • Caltapa – caltapa speciosa
  • Cottonwood – populus deltoides
  • Dogwood, alternate-leaved – cornus alterifolia
  • Dogwood, gray – cornus racemosa
  • Elm, slippery or red– ulmus rubra
  • Hickory, shagbark – carya ovata
  • Maple, ash-leaved (box-elder) – acer negundo
  • Maple, norway – acer platanoides
  • Maple, silver – acer saccharinum
  • Maple, sugar – acer rubrum
  • Oak, pin – quercus palustris
  • Oak, swamp-white – quercus bicolor
  • Red-cedar, eastern – juniperus virginiana
  • Sumac, staghorn – rhus typhina
  • Sweetgum – liquidamber styraciflua
  • Sycamore – plantanus occidentalis
  • Willow, black – salix nigra

Bird Inventory


A listing of observed birds at and around the Mohican Region.

Permanent resident birds:


  • Canada goose
  • Great blue heron
  • Ring-necked pheasant
  • Sharp-shinned hawk
  • Cooper’s hawk
  • Red-tailed hawk
  • Bald eagle
  • American kestrel
  • Great-horned owl
  • Eastern screech owl
  • Mourning dove
  • American robin
  • Downy woodpecker
  • Hairy woodpecker
  • Horned lark
  • American crow
  • Blue jay
  • Tufted titmouse
  • White-breasted nuthatch
  • Carolina wren
  • Brown-headed cowbird
  • European starling
  • Northern cardinal
  • House finch american
  • Goldfinch song sparrow
  • House sparrow

Summer resident birds:


  • Pied-billed grebe
  • brown thrasher
  • great-crested flycatcher
  • gray catbird
  • eastern kingbird
  • Trumpeter swan
  • Wood thrush
  • eastern phoebe
  • Mallard
  • cedar waxwing
  • eastern wood pewee
  • Wood duck
  • red-eyed vireo
  • willow flycatcher
  • Hooded merganser
  • warbling vireo
  • purple martin
  • Common tern
  • american redstart
  • cliff swallow
  • Forester’s tern
  • yellow warbler
  • barn swallow
  • Great egret
  • common yellowthroat
  • tree swallow
  • Black-crowned night heron
  • ovenbird
  • bank swallow
  • Green heron
  • common grackle
  • rough-winged swallow
  • Killdeer
  • eastern meadowlark
  • chimney swift
  • American woodcock
  • orchard oriole
  • black-capped chickadee
  • Turkey vulture
  • baltimore oriole
  • house wren
  • Yellow-billed cuckoo
  • indigo bunting
  • Ruby-throated hummingbird
  • chipping sparrow
  • Belted kingfisher
  • field sparrow
  • Common flicker
  • swamp sparrow
  • Red-winged blackbird
  • savannah sparrow


Extirpated species:


  • bobwhite quail
  • barn owl
  • western meadowlark
  • dickcissel


Winter residents:


  • northern harrier
  • rough-legged hawk
  • Short-eared owl
  • long-eared owl
  • slate-colored junco
  • Snow bunting
  • american tree sparrow
  • Common loon
  • american pipit
  • Red-breasted nuthatch
  • snow goose
  • brown creeper
  • Black duck
  • kinglet
  • Common pintail
  • blue-gray gnatcatcher
  • american widgeon
  • Eastern bluebird
  • gadwall
  • gray-cheeked thrush
  • Northern shoveler
  • hermit thrush
  • blue-winged teal
  • Swainson’s thrush
  • green-winged teal
  • veery
  • Canvasback philadelphia
  • Yellow-throated vireo
  • ring-necked duck
  • white-eyed vireo
  • Lesser scaup
  • solitary vireo
  • greater scaup
  • Northern parula warbler
  • common goldeneye
  • prothonotary warbler
  • Bufflehead
  • black-throated green warbler
  • ruddy duck
  • Black and white warbler
  • common merganser
  • blackpoll warbler
  • Red-breasted merganser
  • black-throated blue warbler
  • bonaparte’s gull
  • Magnolia warbler
  • american coot
  • myrtle warbler
  • Caspian tern
  • canada warbler
  • sandhill crane
  • Cape may warbler
  • black-bellied plover
  • chestnut-sided warbler
  • Lesser golden plover
  • bay-breasted warbler
  • ruddy turnstone
  • Blackburnian warbler
  • semipalmated plover
  • palm warbler
  • Short-billed dowitcher
  • long-billed dowitcher
  • tennessee warbler
  • Solitary sandpiper
  • wilson’s warbler
  • lesser and greater yellowlegs
  • Nashville warbler
  • buff-breasted sandpiper
  • mourning warbler
  • dunlin
  • Northern waterthrush
  • spotted sandpiper
  • rusty blackbird
  • Least sandpiper
  • scarlet tanager
  • semipalmated sandpiper
  • Rose-breasted grosbeak
  • baird’s sandpiper
  • eastern towhee
  • White-rumped sandpiper
  • white-throated sparrow
  • western sandpiper
  • White-crowned sparrow
  • broad-winged hawk
  • fox sparrow
  • Red-shouldered hawk
  • lincoln’s sparrow
  • osprey
  • Least flycatcher
  • saw-whet owl
  • yellow-bellied flycatcher
  • Red-bellied woodpecker
  • yellow-bellied sapsucker

Reptile Inventory


Reptiles found throughout the region.

  • Common snapping turtle chelydra serpentina
  • Blanding’s turtle (rare) emydoidea blandingii
  • Midland painted turtle chrysemys picta marginata
  • Red-eared slider trachemys scripta elegans
  • Northern water snake nerodia sipedon
  • Queen snake (rare) regina septemvittata
  • Kirtland’s snake (rare) clonophis kirtlandii
  • Eastern garter snake thamnophis sirtalis
  • Butler’s garter snake thamnophis butleri
  • Northern brown snake storeria dekayi
  • Eastern fox snake elaphe gloydi

Mammal Inventory


An abundance of mammal species can be found at Malabar Farm.

  • Chipmunk tamias striatus
  • norway rat rattus norvegicus
  • house mouse mus musculus
  • white-footed mouse peromyscus leucopus
  • deer mouse peromyscus maniculatus
  • southern bog lemming synaptomys cooperi
  • meadow vole microtus pennsylvanicus
  • shorttail shrew blarina brevicauda
  • eastern mole scalopus aquaticus
  • little brown bat myotis lucifugus
  • big brown bat eptesicus fuscus

Fish Inventory


Discover a variety of fish species in Switzer’s Run and the many farm ponds.

  • Largemouth bass micropterus salmoides
  • smallmouth bass micropterus dolomieui
  • black crappie pomoxis nigromaculatus
  • Yellow perch perca flavescens
  • Channel catfish ictalurus punctatus
  • emerald shine nortropis atherinoides
  • Freshwater drum aplodinotus grunniens
  • Common carp cyprinus carpio
  • white bass morone chrysops
  • White crappie pomoxis annularis
  • Common white sucker catostomus commersoni
  • Sunfish (bluegill) lepomis spp.
  • Rock bass ambloplites rupestris