DIVERSITY OF LIFE

TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA

Celastrus scandens L.	Mitchell NY NYFA TC USDA NY accepted accepted accepted

American Bittersweet, Climbing Bittersweet, False Bittersweet, Shrubby Bittersweet
Celastraceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: In thickets along streams and fences, and on cliffs, in gravelly or shaly neutral or calcareous soils; common. June-July 15. Abundant along the lake cliffs, and frequent in the ravines of the basin. Not characteristic of the chestnut and ericaceous acid soils, and for the most part absent in such locations. Me. to Mass., southw. especially in the mts. to N.C., and to Kans. and N. Mex.; less frequent on the Coastal Plain.

BH SPECIMENS FOR Celastrus scandens (this list may be incomplete)

Ithaca, Fall Creek Ravine and Vicinity, 11 Jun 1914, C.C. Thomas 2767 (BH 4481);

Cayuga Lake shore, Oct 1882, Dudley (BH 52846);

Ithaca, Six Mile Gorge, 9 Oct 1933, Ellis 662 (BH 47514);

Enfield, along road,N of Enfield Ravine, in edge of woods, 31 Aug 1914, Wiegand 2769 (BH 67128);

Ulysses, Bailiwick, 15 Oct 1922, Bailey (BH 4478);

Ulysses, Bailiwick, 18 Jun 1916, Bailey (BH 4473);

S of Ithaca, Larch meadow, 6 Jun 1908, Brown (BH 4468);

below cliffs along Cayuga Lake SW of Esty Glen, talus slope, 31 Oct 1937, Clausen 3263 (BH 4472);

below cliffs along Cayuga Lake SW of Esty Glen, talus slope, 31 Oct 1937, Clausen 3263 (BH 4470);

SW of Ithaca, on fence at edge of cow pasture on hillside along Culver Road, Vine, 17 Oct 1971, Dress 7907 (BH 4467);

Cayuga Heights, Ithaca, Gravel hillside near Cayuga Hights Road, 21 Jun 1916, Metcalf 6793 (BH 4482);

Cascadilla Ravine and Vicinity, Ithaca, Dry woods, 16 Jun 1913, Palmer 772 (BH 4469);

Enfield Ravine and Vicinity, Along road N of ravine, 31 Aug 1914, Wiegand 2709 (BH 4479);

Ithaca, Wooded slope, above amphitheater, 6 Jun 1914, Wiegand & Thomas 2705 (BH 4480);

THERE ARE AN ADDITIONAL 2 SPECIMENS AT BH THAT ARE NOT YET FULLY RECORDED

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