The areas mapped above represent favorite viewing, observation, and discovery spots where your chances of encountering varied species will increase. The following list was compiled by the Park Naturalist for the Ohio State Parks 2009-2014 cultural resource survey.

Arum family
Jack-in-the-pulpit (arisaema triphyllum) native
Skunk Cabbage (symplocarpus foetidus) native

Barberry family
Blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) native
Mayapple or Mandrake (podophyllum peltatum) native

Bedstraw family
Bedstraw (galium)

Birthwort family
Wild ginger (asarum canadense) native

Buttercup family
Rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides) native
Wood anemone (anemone quinquefolia) native
Swamp Buttercup (ranunculus septentrionalis)  native
Kidney-Leaf Buttercup (ranunculus abortivus) native
Sharp-lobed hepatica (hepatica acutiloba) native
Round-lobed hepatica (hepatica americana) native
Marsh Marigold or Cow Slip (caltha palustris) native
Black Cohosh or Bugbane (cimicifuga racemosa) native

Cattail family
Common cattail (typha latifolia) native

Daisy or composite family
Coltsfoot (tussilango faram) non-native
Golden ragwort (senecio aureus) native
Plantin-leaved pussytoes (antennaria plantaginifolia) native

Forget-me-not family
Virginia bluebells or virginia cowslip (mertensia virginica)

Geranium family
Wild geranium (geranium maculatum) native

Ginseng family
Dwarf ginseng (panax trifolium) native

Iris family
Yellow flag (iris pseudacorus) non-native

Poppy family (bleeding heart belongs to this family.)
Dutchman's Breeches (dicentra cucullaria) native
Squirrel corn (dicentra canadensis} native
Bloodroot (sanguinaria canadensis) native

Purslane family
Spring beauty (claytoniavirginica) native

Lily family
Bellwort (uvularia p^rj^ma) native
Trillium, large white, or wake robin (trillium grandiflorum) native
State wild flower of ohio drooping trillum (trillium flexipes) native
Trout lily or dogtooth violet (erythronium americanum) native
Wild leek or ramp (allium tricoccum) native
Yellow mandarin (disporum lanuginosum) native
Solomon's seal (polygonatum biflorum) native
Plume (smiladna rancemosa) native

Mint family
Henbit or purple dead-nettle (lamium amplexicaule) non-native

Mustard family
Spring cress or bitter cress (cardamine bulbosa) native
Purple cress (cardamine) native
Cutleaf toothwort (dentaria laciniata) native
Toothwort or two leaf toothwort (dentaria diphylla) native
Garlic mustard (alliaria offidnalis) non-native
Winter cress (barbarea vulgaris) non-native

Parsley family
Harbinger-of-spring (erigenia bulbosa) native

Phlox family
Wild blue phlox or wild sweet william (phlox divaricata) native

Pink family
Common chickweed (stellaria media) non-native
Mouse-ear Chickweed (cerastium vulgatum) non-native

Rose family
Common cinquefoil (potentilla simplex) native
Indian strawberry (duchesnea indict) non-native
Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora) non-native

Saxifrage family
Miterwort or bishop's cap (mitella diphylla) native

Snapdragon family
Corn speedwell (veronica arvensis) non-native
Field speedwell (veronica agrestis) non-native

Violet family
Downy yellow violet (viola pubescens) native
Common blue violet (viola sororia) native
Striped White Violet (viola striata) native
Long-spurred violet (viola rostrata) native

Willow family
Pussy willow (salix discolor)

 

Ash, green – fraxinus pennsylvanica var. Subintegerrima
Ash, pumpkin – fraxinus tomentosa
Buckthorn, european alder – rhamnus frangula
Caltapa – caltapa speciosa
Cottonwood – populus deltoides
Dogwood, alternate-leaved – cornus alterifolia
Dogwood, gray – cornus racemosa
Elm, slippery or red– ulmus rubra
Hickory, shagbark – carya ovata
Maple, ash-leaved (box-elder) – acer negundo
Maple, norway – acer platanoides
Maple, silver – acer saccharinum
Maple, sugar – acer rubrum
Oak, pin – quercus palustris
Oak, swamp-white – quercus bicolor
Red-cedar, eastern – juniperus virginiana
Sumac, staghorn – rhus typhina
Sweetgum – liquidamber styraciflua
Sycamore – plantanus occidentalis
Willow, black – salix nigra

Permanent resident birds:
Canada goose
Great blue heron
Ring-necked pheasant
Sharp-shinned hawk
Cooper's hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Bald eagle
American kestrel
Great-horned owl
Eastern screech owl
Mourning dove
American robin
Downy woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker
Horned lark
American crow
Blue jay
Tufted titmouse
White-breasted nuthatch
Carolina wren
Brown-headed cowbird
European starling
Northern cardinal
House finch american
Goldfinch song sparrow
House sparrow

Summer resident birds:

Pied-billed grebe
brown thrasher
great-crested flycatcher
gray catbird
eastern kingbird
Trumpeter swan
Wood thrush
eastern phoebe
Mallard
cedar waxwing
eastern wood pewee
Wood duck
red-eyed vireo
willow flycatcher
Hooded merganser
warbling vireo
purple martin
Common tern
american redstart
cliff swallow
Forester's tern
yellow warbler
barn swallow
Great egret
common yellowthroat
tree swallow
Black-crowned night heron
ovenbird
bank swallow
Green heron
common grackle
rough-winged swallow
Killdeer
eastern meadowlark
chimney swift
American woodcock
orchard oriole
black-capped chickadee
Turkey vulture
baltimore oriole
house wren
Yellow-billed cuckoo
indigo bunting
Ruby-throated hummingbird
chipping sparrow
Belted kingfisher
field sparrow
Common flicker
swamp sparrow
Red-winged blackbird
savannah sparrow

Extirpated species:
bobwhite quail
barn owl
western meadowlark
dickcissel

Winter residents:
northern harrier
rough-legged hawk
Short-eared owl
long-eared owl
slate-colored junco
Snow bunting
american tree sparrow
Common loon
american pipit
Red-breasted nuthatch
snow goose
brown creeper
Black duck
kinglet
Common pintail
blue-gray gnatcatcher
american widgeon
Eastern bluebird
gadwall
gray-cheeked thrush
Northern shoveler
hermit thrush
blue-winged teal
Swainson's thrush
green-winged teal
veery
Canvasback philadelphia
Yellow-throated vireo
ring-necked duck
white-eyed vireo
Lesser scaup
solitary vireo
greater scaup
Northern parula warbler
common goldeneye
prothonotary warbler
Bufflehead
black-throated green warbler
ruddy duck
Black and white warbler
common merganser
blackpoll warbler
Red-breasted merganser
black-throated blue warbler
bonaparte's gull
Magnolia warbler
american coot
myrtle warbler
Caspian tern
canada warbler
sandhill crane
Cape may warbler
black-bellied plover
chestnut-sided warbler
Lesser golden plover
bay-breasted warbler
ruddy turnstone
Blackburnian warbler
semipalmated plover
palm warbler
Short-billed dowitcher
long-billed dowitcher
tennessee warbler
Solitary sandpiper
wilson's warbler
lesser and greater yellowlegs
Nashville warbler
buff-breasted sandpiper
mourning warbler
dunlin
Northern waterthrush
spotted sandpiper
rusty blackbird
Least sandpiper
scarlet tanager
semipalmated sandpiper
Rose-breasted grosbeak
baird's sandpiper
eastern towhee
White-rumped sandpiper
white-throated sparrow
western sandpiper
White-crowned sparrow
broad-winged hawk
fox sparrow
Red-shouldered hawk
lincoln's sparrow
osprey
Least flycatcher
saw-whet owl
yellow-bellied flycatcher
Red-bellied woodpecker
yellow-bellied sapsucker

 

Common snapping turtle chelydra serpentina
Blanding's turtle (rare) emydoidea blandingii
Midland painted turtle chrysemys picta marginata
Red-eared slider trachemys scripta elegans
Northern water snake nerodia sipedon
Queen snake (rare) regina septemvittata
Kirtland's snake (rare) clonophis kirtlandii
Eastern garter snake thamnophis sirtalis
Butler's garter snake thamnophis butleri
Northern brown snake storeria dekayi
Eastern fox snake elaphe gloydi

 

Chipmunk tamias striatus
norway rat rattus norvegicus
house mouse mus musculus
white-footed mouse peromyscus leucopus
deer mouse peromyscus maniculatus
southern bog lemming synaptomys cooperi
meadow vole microtus pennsylvanicus
shorttail shrew blarina brevicauda
eastern mole scalopus aquaticus
little brown bat myotis lucifugus
big brown bat eptesicus fuscus

 

Largemouth bass micropterus salmoides
smallmouth bass micropterus dolomieui
black crappie pomoxis nigromaculatus
Yellow perch perca flavescens
Channel catfish ictalurus punctatus
emerald shine nortropis atherinoides
Freshwater drum aplodinotus grunniens
Common carp cyprinus carpio
white bass morone chrysops
White crappie pomoxis annularis
Common white sucker catostomus commersoni
Sunfish (bluegill) lepomis spp.
Rock bass ambloplites rupestris