For more information on biodiversity at Belmont you can visit the iNaturalist site:
Wildflowers
American White Waterlily Avens, White Bedstraw, Licorice Bellwort, Perfoliate Bellwort, Sessile Bittercress, Hairy Bloodroot Bull Thistle Buttercup, Hispid Buttercup, Kidney -leaved Buttercup, Tall Carolina Horsenettle Cattail Celandine, Lesser Chickweed, Geometer Chickweed, Star Chicory Chinese Silver Grass Cinquefoil, Dwarf Cleavers Clover, Red Common Dandelion Common Milkweed Common Selfheal Cranefly Orchid Crowfoot, Hooked Cucumber, Indian Daffodil Daylily |
English Ivy Field Thistle Fleabane, Lesser Daisy Garlic Mustard Goatsbeard, Yellow Grape, Frost Indian Strawberry Jack-in-the-Pulpit Japanese Barberry Japanese Honeysuckle Japanese Stiltgrass Jimson Weed Jumpseed Lamb’s Ear Mayapple Meadow Rue, Early Miterwort, Two-leaf Morning Glory Mountain Laurel Mullein Multiflora Rose Nightshade Phlox, Wild Blue Pink, Deptford Poison Ivy Pokeweed Porcelain Berry Puttyroot |
Red Clover Rue Anemone Showy Orchid Skunk Cabbage Snakeroot, Clustered Soft Rush Solomon’s Seal, False Solomon’s Seal, Smooth Speedwell, Ivy-leaved Spicebush Spring Beauty Toothwort, Cut-leaved Toothwort, Slende Trout Lily Venus’ Pride Vinca Violet, Common Blue Violet, Smooth Yellow Virginia Creeper Waterleaf, Virginia White Clover Wineberry Wood Sorrel, Great Wood Sorrel, Yellow Woody Plants Yellow Nutsedge |
Amphibians, Reptiles &Fish Mammals
American Toad Bluegill Common Box Turtle Black Rat Snake Grey Tree Frog Ringneck Snake Wood Frog |
Coyote Eastern Cottontail Rabbit Eastern Grey Squirrel Meadow Vole Opossum, Virginia Raccoon Red Fox White-Tailed Deer |
Insects
Arrowhead Orbweaver Banded Tussock Moth Black Saddlebags Blue Dasher Cabbage White Butterfly Cicada Chinese Mantis Common Eastern Bumblebee Common Pondhawk Crane flyEarwig Eastern Amberwing Eastern Dobsonfly European Mantis Fall Field Cricket Familiar Bluet Forest Tent Caterpillar |
Fragile Forktail Damselfly |
Seven-spotted Ladybird Beetle Slaty Skimmer Spittle Bug Twelve-spotted Skimmer Violet Dancer Wheel Bug Widow Skimmer |
Birds
Acadian Flycatcher American Coot American Crow American Goldfinch American Kestrel American Redstart American Robin Bald Eagle Baltimore Oriole Barn Swallow Barred Owl Bay-breasted Warbler Belted Kingfisher Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Black Vulture Black-and-white Warbler Black-billed Cuckoo Black-crowned Night-Heron Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Blue Grosbeak Blue Jay Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Blue-headed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Bobolink |
Broad-winged Hawk Brown Creeper Brown Thrasher Brown-headed Cowbird Canada Warbler Cape May Warbler Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Cedar Waxwing Cerulean Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Chimney Swift Chipping Sparrow Common Grackle Common Loon Common Merganser Common Nighthawk Common Yellowthroat Cooper’s Hawk Dark-eyed Junco Downy Woodpecker Eastern Bluebird Eastern Kingbird Eastern Meadowlark Eastern Phoebe Eastern Screech Owl Eastern Towhee Eastern Wood-Pewee |
European Starling Field Sparrow Fish Crow Fox Sparrow Gadwall Golden-crowned Kinglet Golden-winged Warbler Gray Catbird Gray-cheeked Thrush Great Blue Heron Great Crested Flycatcher Great Horned Owl Green Heron Hairy Woodpecker Hermit Thrush Herring Gull Hooded Warbler House Finch House Sparrow House Wren Indigo Bunting Kentucky Warbler Purple Martin Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-breasted Nuthatch Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Red-winged Blackbird |
Ring-billed Gull Ring-necked Pheasant Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Rose-breasted Grosbeak Ruby-crowned Kinglet Ruby-throated Hummingbird Savannah Sparrow Scarlet Tanager Swainson’s Thrush Tennessee Warbler Tree Swallow Tufted Titmouse Tundra Swan Veery Warbling Vireo White-eyed Vireo White-throated Sparrow Worm-eating Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Yellow-billed Cuckoo Yellow-beated Chat Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Vireo |
Trees
American Beech American Elm American Sycamore American Holly American Magnolia American Sweetgum Autumn Olive Bald Cypress Bigleaf Magnolia Black Cherry Black Locust Black Walnut Blue Spruce Cedar Cherry Domestic Apple |
Eastern Black Walnut Eastern Redbud Eastern Red Cedar Eastern White Pine English Elm Flowering Dogwood Ginkgo Biloba Hackberry Hemlock Hornbeam Horse Chestnut Korean Pine Magnolia Norway Maple Osage Orange Pacific Silver Fir |
Paper Birch Paw Paw Pin Oak Red Maple Red Oak River Birch Sand Hickory Sassafras Tulip Poplar Western Red Cedar White Pine Willow Oak |