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
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
