It's summertime and the leaves are out on the deciduous plants. Join Shawn Banks, Director, N.C. Cooperative Extension, Carteret County Center, as he walks the Tideland Trail in Cedar Point, and points out many of the deciduous plants that didn't have leaves on them when he last videotaped the trail in February. Get acquainted with some new plants and revisit some we have already seen. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of the salt marsh along the 1.3 mile long loop trail.

Native plants and points of interest on the seventh trail walk:

Poison Ivy Toxicodendron radicans

Marsh Elder Iva frutescens

Muscadine Grape Vitis rotundifolia

Red Bay Persea borbonia

Dune Saw Greenbrier or Bullbrier Smilax bona-nox

Black Needlerush Juncus roemerianus

Black Oak, Water Oak or Possum Oak Quercus nigra

Pink Fetterbush or Dog Hobble Lyonia lucida

Southern Highbush Blueberry Vaccinium formosum

Saltmarsh Morning Glory Ipomoea sagittata

Baldcypress Taxodium distichum

Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush Clethra alnifolia

Cinnamon Fern Osmundastrum cinnamomeum

American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana

Coral Honeysuckle or Trumpet Honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens

Devil’s Walking Stick or Angelica Tree Aralia spinosa

Laurel Oak Quercus laurifolia

Sand Fiddler Crab Uca pugilator

Marsh Periwinkle Snails Littornina irrorata

Dwarf Glasswort Salicornia bigelovii

Southern Live Oak or Bay Live Oak Quercus virginiana

Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia