*Asparagus officinalis L. GARDEN ASPARAGUS. Goat Island,
Sept. 19, 1877 (J. D. Hooker's American Journal). "Goat Island and
elsewhere. Not common," Day (1888). Ontario, Queen Victoria Park, Panton
(1890). Ontario, Niagara Park System, Cameron (1895). "... in meadows or
fence corners ... escaped from some nearby cultivated areas," Hamilton
(1943).
New York: old
railroad bed "near the rim, disturbed soils, ,
with Aster ericoides, A. simplex, A. novae-angliae, A. laevis, Solidago spp." Eckel 721285 (BUF); along dolomite top of the Niagara River Gorge
between the Lower Arch RR Bridge and Whirlpool Park, "about 5
individuals," Eckel 553185 (BUF); Goat Island, River
margin, thickets on the North side.Eckel,
June 15, 1987 (BUF); Buckhorn Island, SW part of park, W of I90, near path
along Niagara River from West River Parkway to Burntship Creek, meadow just S
of creek, Eckel, Oct. 1, 1997 (BUF).
[Ontario: Fort
Erie. Grassy meadows along the Niagara
River. Charles A. Zenkert Sept. 1, 1928 (BUF).]