A non-profit citizens' group advocating for Newton's open spaces
Avery Woods is a six-acre piece of open space between Day Middle School and Albemarle Field. The land, together with 2.5 acres now used for the middle school, was sold by
The Conservation Commission has been working busily on four Conservation Restrictions. Two CRs, protecting portions of the Jick and Field properties abutting Hammond Pond, will conserve the wooded swamp and
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Common name: Black cohosh
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Common name: Paper birch
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Common name: Fox grape
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Common name: Alabama crimson trumpet honeysuckle
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Common name: Virgin’s bower
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Common name: Mountain laurel
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Common name: Buttonbush
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Common name: Highbush cranberry
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Common name: Virginia creeper
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Common name: Dutchman’s pipe
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Common name: Northern bush honeysuckle
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Common name: Lowbush blueberry
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Common name: Virginia rose
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Common name: Small bayberry
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Common name: Red baneberry
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Common name: American trout lily
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Common name: Bowman’s root
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Common name: Tall thimbleweed
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Common name: Blue wood aster
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Common name:Blue wood aster
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Common name:Rosy meadowsweet
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Common name: Hairy beardtongue
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Common name:Downy solomon’s seal
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Common name: White goldenrod
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Common name: Bee balm
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Common name: Spotted cranesbill
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Common name: White wood aster
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Common name: False solomon’s seal
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Common name: Marsh marigold
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Common name: New England aster
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Common name: Culver’s root
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Common name: Mountain mint
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Common name: Foxglove beardtongue
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Common name: Red columbine
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Common name: Hairy beardtongue
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Common name: Flowering dogwood
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Common name: Red-twig dogwood
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Common name: Pussy willow
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Common name: St. John’s wort
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Common name: Red chokeberry
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Common name: Northern spicebush
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Common name: Common winterberry
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Common name: New Jersey Tea
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Common name: Summersweet
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Common name: Canada serviceberry
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Common name: Ironwood, Hop hornbeam
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Common name: Redbud
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Common name: Black cherry
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Common name: Swamp white oak
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Common name: Butterfly milkweed
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Common name: Blazing star
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Common name: Spotted Joe-Pye weed
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Common name: Common milkweed
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Common name: Swamp milkweed
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Common name: Willow leaf bluestar
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Common name: New York ironweed
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Common name: Pennsylvania sedge
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Common name: Bird’s foot or common violet
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Common name: Goatsbeard
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Common name: Running foam flower
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Common name: Marsh marigold
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Common name: Woodland phlox
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Common name: Common alum-root
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Common name: Axillary goldenrood
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Common name: Ohio spiderwort
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Common name: Cardinal flower
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Common name: Zigzag goldenrod
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Common name: Wild strawberry
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Common name: Blue vervain
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Common name: Heartleaf alexander
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Common name: Wild bergamot
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Common name: Cutleaf coneflower
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Common name: White turtlehead
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Common name: Yellow wild indigo
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Common name: Anise hyssop
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