Plant Walk through the Pine Tree Preservation

I went for a lovely walk around the Pine Tree Preserve around 1 pm on Tuesday. It was mostly cloudy, around 56 degrees Fahrenheit, and very overcast with a slight drizzle for the first ten minutes of my walk. On this walk I focused on finding four different types of plants: Bryophyta (which are nonvascular plants), polypodiopsida (seedless vascular plants), gymnosperms (non-flowering seed plants), and angiosperms (flowering plants). I definitely did not find as many bryophytas as I had expected because the Pine Tree Preserve was not a very damp forest; although all the bryophytas I did observe were low lying and in small clumps. There was high species abundance of ferns for the polypodiopsida, but all other plants I observed had low species abundance. There was a high biodiversity of angiosperms in this alpha region. I observed multiple types of flowering plants in one region. Overall there was low to moderate biodiversity across all plant species and it was a perfect day to take a walk!

Posted on October 19, 2022 03:11 AM by amyguggenberger