Arenaria lateriflora L. SIDE-FLOWERING or BLUNT-LEAFED SANDWORT.
Ontario: Niagara Falls, T. J. W. Burgess, July 9, 1885 (85.334), Heimburger
(1955). "Goat Island," Day (1888). "Goat Island (Johnson),"
Zenkert (1934). "... is sometimes found along the upper Niagara,"
Hamilton (1943).
New York: Goat Island, James
W. Ward, (BUF); Goat Island, David F. Day, 1862 (BUF); Goat Island, J. H. Burdick,
June 26, 1884 (BUF); Third Sister Island, Elizabeth C. Rochester, May 30, 1886
(BUF); Goat Island, Marion Jessup Wright, June 27, 1896 (BUF); Goat Island, Edward
C. Townsend, June 27, 1896 (BUF).
Ontario:
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Rempel, June, 1968 (NFO). Ontario: Navy Island, edge of Quercus macrocarpa, Carya ovata woods,
with Luzula campestris, Claytonia virginica, Eckel, May 13, 1998 (BUF).
Erie Co. City of Buffalo. Squaw Island, Niagara River. Christine
Bernhard May 29, 1895 (BUF).
Reported as rare and in danger of extirpation
by overpicking and habitat disturbance by Zander and Pierce (1979).
*Arenaria serpyllifolia L. THYME-LEAVED SANDWORT.
Specimens from Goat Island: 1862, David F. Day (BUF); 1884, J. H. Burdick
(BUF); 1896, Edward C. Townsend (BUF); 1896, Marion Jessup Wrightl (BUF).
"A specimen of Johnson's," Zenkert, 1934. Third Sister, 1886,
Elizabeth C. Rochester (BUF). "Roadsides at Clifton and elsewhere,"
Day (1888). Ontario, Queen Victoria Park, Panton (1890). Ontario: Niagara, W. J. Potter, 1908 (1896), Heimburger (1955).
"Ontario: Niagara Glen," Zenkert (1934). "... occurs in the
grasslands of the Parks," Hamilton (1943).
New York:
Lewiston, Pease, June 5, 1885 (BUF); Whirlpool State Park, on the gorge of the Niagara
River, upriver crest, with Bromus tectorum, Dactylis glomerata, Berberis thunbergeri,
Rhamnus cathartica. P. M. Eckel s.n. May 25, 2000 (BUF); Bluffs of the Niagara
River gorge overlooking
the river and Queenston at its N terminus beside Robt Moses Pkwy.
Escarp. top, dense weedy shrubs, Lonicera tartarica, Ligustrum vulgari P. M.
Eckel s.n. June 19, 2001 (BUF).
Ontario: Dufferin
Islands "shaded moist grassy thickets overlooking running water,"
Eckel May 25, 1985 (BUF). New York:
Buckhorn Island, north end of Grand Island, berm (seagull) + Danthonia
spicata, Sedum acre, Dianthus armeria, Diplotaxis muralis, Poa compressa,
Eckel, June 14, 1998 (BUF).