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ongoing research chronicling wild plants throughout the Red Hook / Gowanus watershed in Brooklyn, NYC. photos compiled from within the gowanus/red hook watershed between 2012 –  on . 
in process


Solidago sempervirens, seaside goldenrod / Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort / Morus alba, red mulberry
“C.S.I.” Map of Red Hook’s historic streams and coast with current day streets. Courtesy of Eymund Diegel
“Plan of the city of New York in North America: surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767” by Bernard Ratzer. Courtesy of the New York Public Library. 
Dry Dock at Erie Basin, 1910 
The City of Brooklyn, Charles R. Parsons, 1879 - Currier & Ives. Courtesy of Library of Congress.  
Oxalis pes-caprae, woodsorrel / Amaranthus retroflexus / red root pigweed

Surface Geology: Glacial – Mostly unsorted and unstratified material, generally unconsolidated, deposited directly by and underneath or adjacent to glacier without subsequent reworking by meltwater. Consists of heterogeneous mixture of clay, silt, sand, gravel, and boulders, ranging widely in size and shape. Courtesy of USGS
Plan of the Town of Brooklyn and Town of Brooklyn and Part of Long Island.
1867 by Samuel Edward Stiles. Based on the Ratzer Map of 1766-7.  
Tanacetum parthenium, feverfew 
Lower Hudson sheet (By D.H Cadwell, G.G. Connally, R.J. Dineen, P.J. Fleisher, M.L. Fuller, M.L., Les Sirkin, and G.C. Wiles). Courtesy of USGS 
Lower Hudson sheet (By D.H Cadwell, G.G. Connally, R.J. Dineen, P.J. Fleisher, M.L. Fuller, M.L., Les Sirkin, and G.C. Wiles). Courtesy of USGS
Brooklyn Gowanus History Map - Courtesy of Eymund Diegel   
Welikia Project, Red Hook ~1609. Courtesy of NYBG
Linaria vulgaris, toadflax
Amaranthus crispus, crisp amaranth / Agrostis hyemalis, winter bentgrass / Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort
Ørkenen Sur / Tin City was a Norwegian settlement along the Red Hook waterfront, on a site known as Smoke Loten.
Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort
Bromus tectorum, downy brome
Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort
Amaranthus, crimson amaranth
Verbascum thapsus, common mullein
Datura stramonium, jimson weed
Chenopodium album, lambsquarters / Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort
Celosia cristata, coral flower growing along the waterfront, Red Hook. Courtesy of NY Times, Oct. 31, 2017  
Datura stramonium, jimson weed
“New York’s Busiest Port; Erie Basin” 1945
Plantago lancelota, ribwort plantain / Solidago sempervirens, seaside goldenrod / Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort
Linaria vulgaris, toadflax
Plants Introduced with Ballast and on Made Land- Addison Brown in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 6, No. 45 (Sep., 1878), pp. 255-258 
Banks of the Gowanus Canal, 2012
Red Hook Water Stories 
Sorghastrum nutans, wood grass
Chenopodium album, lambsquarters
Polygonum cuspidatum, japanese knotweed
Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort
Lycopus europaeus, gypsywort, water horehound / Cakile maritima, sea rocket
Ballast Plants In and Near New York City Addison Brown in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 8, No. 12 (Dec., 1881), pp. 141-142
Setaria, foxtail 
Phytolacca decandra, pokeweed
Vicia, common vetch / Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort
Vol, VI., No. 59.] BULLETIN OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. [New York, Nov. 1879. 358. Ballast Plants in New York City and its vicinity. Found at Gowanus Creek, 1879-81
LATIN
Amarantus crispus Braun		COMMON
Crispleaf amaranth		ORIGIN
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
Atriplex hortensis L.Red oracheAsia, Europe
Ballota nigra L.Black horehoundEurope, Mediterranean, east / central Asia
Cakile maritima Scop.SearocketBritian, Ireland
Carduus crispus subsp. multiflorusWelted thistleBelgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Linaria supinaProstrate toadflaxSouth-western Europe, Croatia, North Africa
Lycopus europaeusGypsywort, water horehoundEurope, Asia
Mentha arvensisWild mintEurope, western / central Asia, Himalaya, eastern Siberia, North America
Nasturtium palustre / Rorippa hispidumNasturtium N. America to Mexico 
Parietaria officinalis L.Eastern pellitory-of-the-wall, lichwortSubmediterranean-subatlantic, C Asia
Plantago coronopus L.Bucks horn plantainEurasia and North Africa
Reseda alba L.white upright mignonetteEurope, Asia, and North Africa
Roubieva multifida Moq.Cut leaf goosefootSouth America
Scrophularia aquatica L.Shoreline figwortWestern Europe and North Africa
Stachys sylvatica L.Hedge woundwort / nettleEurope and central and western Asia
Veronica anagallis L.Water speedwellSouthern Africa to Eurasia
Veronica beccabunga L.European speedwell, brooklimeEurope, North Africa