Biodiversity – Mt. Pleasant

Trees & Wildlife at the Howard County Conservancy’s Mt. Pleasant Farm

 

For more information on biodiversity at Mt. Pleasant you can visit the Maryland Biodiversity Program’s site: https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/sites/hcc/

 

Birds at Mt. Pleasant

These birds have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm by the Howard County Bird Club – View their Site Guide

Snow Goose	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	Brown Thrasher	Magnolia Warbler
Canada Goose	Downy Woodpecker	Northern Mockingbird	Bay-breasted Warbler
Tundra Swan	Hairy Woodpecker	European Starling	Blackburnian Warbler
Wood Duck	Northern Flicker	Cedar Waxwing	Yellow Warbler
Mallard	Pileated Woodpecker	House Sparrow	Chestnut-sided Warbler
Northern Pintail	American Kestrel	American Pipit	Blackpoll Warbler
Hooded Merganser	Merlin	Evening Grosbeak	Black-Throated Blue Warbler
Northern Bobwhite	Peregrine Falcon	House Finch	Palm Warbler
Rig-necked Pheasant	Olive-sided Flycatcher	Purple Finch	Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wild Turkey	Eastern Wood-Pewee	Red Crossbill	Prairie Warbler
Rock Pigeon	Acadian Flycatcher	Pine Siskin	Black-throated Green Warbler
Mourning Dove	Alder Flycatcher	American Goldfinch	Canada Warbler
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Willow Flycatcher	Grasshopper Sparrow	Wilson's Warbler
Black-billed Cuckoo	Least Flycatcher	Chipping Sparrow	Scarlet Tanager
Common Nighthawk	Easter Phoebe	Clay-colored Sparrow	Northern Cardinal
Chimney Swift	Great Crested Flycatcher	Field Sparrow	Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	Eastern Kingbird	Fox Sparrow	Blue Grosbeak
Black-bellied Plover	White-eyed Vireo	American Tree Sparrow	Indigo Bunting
Killdeer	Yellow-throated Vireo	Dark-eyed Junco	Dickcissel
Upland Sandpiper	Blue-headed Vireo	White-crowned Sparrow	Bald Eagle
Wilson's Snipe	Philadelphia Vireo	White-throated Sparrow	Common Raven
American Woodcock	Warbling Vireo	Vesper Sparrow	Black-capped Chickadee
Spotted Sandpiper	Red-eyed Vireo	LeConte's Sparrow	Tundra Swan
Solitary Sandpiper	Blue Jay	Nelson's Sparrow	Black-crowned Night Heron
Bonaparte's Gull	American Crow	Savannah Sparrow
Laughing Gull	Fish Crow	Song Sparrow
Ring-billed Gull	Common Crow	Lincoln's Sparrow
Herring Gull	Horned Lark	Swamp Sparrow
Great Black-backed Gull	Bank Swallow	Eastern Towhee
Common Loon	Tree Swallow	Yellow-breasted Chat
Double-crested Cormorant	N. Rough-winged Swallow	Bobolink
American Bittern	Purple Martin	Eastern Meadowlark
Great Blue Heron	Barn Swallow	Orchard Oriole
Great Egret	Carolina Chickadee	Baltimore Oriole
Green Heron	Tufted Titmouse	Red-winged Blackbird
Glossy Ibis	Red-breasted Nuthatch	Brown-headed Cowbird
Black Vulture	White-breasted Nuthatch	Rusty Blackbird
Turkey Vulture	Brown Creeper	Common Grackle
Osprey	House Wren	Ovenbird
Northern Harrier	Winter Wren	Northern Waterthrush
Sharp-shinned Hawk	Sedge Wren	Golden-winged Warbler
Cooper's Hawk	Marsh Wren	Blue-winged Warbler
Red-shouldered Hawk	Carolina Wren	Black-and-white Warbler
Broad-winged Hawl	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	Tennessee Warbler
Red-tailed Hawk	Golden-crowned Kinglet	Orange-crowned Warbler
Rough-legged Hawk	Ruby-covered Kinglet	Nashville Warbler
Eastern Screech Owl	Eastern Bluebird	Connecticut Warbler
Barred Owl	Veery	Mourning Warbler
Great Horned Owl	Swainson's Thrush	Common Yellowthroat
Belted Kingfisher	Hermit Thrush	American Redstart
Red-headed Woodpecker	American Robin	Cape May Warbler
Red-bellied Woodpecker	Gray Catbird	Northern Parula

 

Mammals at Mt. Pleasant

American Beaver	Mink	Eastern Fox Squirrel
Muskrat	Long-tailed Weasel	Eastern Chipmunk
Virginia Opossum	Striped Skunk	White-footed deer Mouse
Gray Fox	Common Raccoon	Meadow Shrew
Red Fox	Eastern Cottontail	Northern Short-tailed Shrew
Groundhog	Eastern Gray Squirrel	White-tailed Deer
River Otter

Mammal Not Spotted, But Possible

Various Bat Species

Black Bear

Bobcat

Eastern Coyote

Northern Flying Squirrel

Various Mole and Shrew Species

 

 

Reptiles at Mt. Pleasant

Eastern Box Turtle	Eastern Black Ratsnake	Northern Black Racer
Snapping Turtle	Eastern Milksnake	Northern Brown Snake
Spotted Turtle	Eastern Ribbonsnake	Queensnake
Common Gatersnake	Hognose Snake	Ring-necked Snake
Five-lined Skink

 

 

Amphibians at Mt. Pleasant

American Toad	Spring Peeper	Northern Dusky Salamander
Gray Tree Frog	Southern Leopard Frog	Northern Two-lined Salamander
Green Frog	Wood Frog	Red Salamander
Pickerel Frog	American Bullfrog	Spotted Salamander

 

Fish at Mt. Pleasant

Blacknose Dace

Longnose Dace

Rosyside Dace

Creek Chub

Largemouth Bass

Mottled Sculpin

White Sucker

 

Insects at Mt. Pleasant

Bee Species

Carlin's Andrena	Doubled Ceratina	Gotham Bee
Spring Beauty Andrena	Nimble Ceratina	Wool Carder Bee
Honey Bee	Two-spotted Long-horned Bee	Porter's Cuckoo-leaf-cutter
Black-and-Gold Bumble Bee	Thistle Long-horned Bee	Say's Cuckoo-leaf-cutter
Two-spotted Bumble Bee	Hibiscus Bee	Cuckoo-leaf-cutter Bee
Golden Northern Bumble Bee	Northern Carpenter Bee	Common Little Leaf-cutter Bee
Brown-belted Bumble Bee	Pure Green Augochlora	Flat-tailed Leaf-cutter Bee
Common Eastern Bumble Bee	Sweat Bee	Silver-tail Petal-cutter Bee
Perplexing Bumble Bee	Bruner's Dialictus	Alfalfa Leaf-cutter Bee
Spurred Ceratina	Cresson's Dialictus	Bufflehead Mason Bee
		Hornfaced Bee

Beetle Species

Emerald Ash Borer	Mottled Tortoise Beetle	Spotted Lady Beetle
Margined Leatherwing	Sotted Cucumber Beetle	Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
Bronzed Tiger Beetle	Western Corn Rootworm	Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle
Punctured Tiger Beetle	Pigweed Flea Beetle	Golden Net-winged Beetle
Locust Borer	Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle	Patent Leather Beetle
Red Milkweed Beetle	False Potato Beetle	Oriental Beetle
Striped Cucumber Beetle	Goldenrod Leaf Miner	Masked Chafer Beetle
Green Tortoise Beetle	Clavate Tortoise Beetle	Japanese Beetle
Dogbane Beetle	Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle	Round-necked Sexton Beetle

Butterfly Species

These butterflies have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm by the Howard County Bird Club. View their Site Guide

Swallowtail Butterflies:	Brush-footed Butterflies:	Skipper Butterflies:
Pipevine Swallowtails	American Snout	Silver-spotted Skipper
Black Swallowtails	Variegated Fritillary	Long-tailed Skipper
Spicebush Swallowtail	Great Spangled Fritillary	Northern Cloudywing
Giant Swallowtail	Meadow Fritillary	Hayhurst's Scallopwing
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail	Silvery Checkerspot	Juvenal's Duskywing
	Pearl Crescent	Horace's Duskywing
Whites and Sulphur Butterflies:	Question Mark	Wild Indigo Duskywing
Cabbage White	Eastern Comma	Common Checkered-Skip
Falcate Orangetip	Mourning Cloak	Common Sootywing
Clouded Sulphur	American Lady	Swarthy Skipper
Orange Sulphur	Painted Lady	Clouded Skipper
Cloudless Sulphur	Red Admiral	Least Skipper
Sleepy Orange	Common Buckeye	Fiery Skipper
	Red-spotted Purple	Peck's Skipper
Gossamer- Winger Butterflies:	Viceroy	Tawny-edged Skipper
Harvester	Hackberry Emperor	Crossline Skipper
American Copper	Northern Pearly Eye	Southern Broken-dash
Coral Hairstreak	Little Wood Satyr	Northern Broken-dash
Banded Hairstreak	Common Wood Nymph	Little Glassywing
Juniper Hairstreak	Monarch	Sachem
White M Hairstreak	Tawny Emperor	Hobomok Skipper
Gray Hairstreak		Zabulon Skipper
Red-banded Hairstreak		Broad-winged Skipper
Eastern Tailed-blue		Dun Skipper
Summer Azure		Ocola Skipper

Moth Species

Clemen's Grass Tubeworm Moth	Painted Lichen Moth	Skiff Moth	Red-humped Oakworm Moth
Angel Moth	Common Idia Moth	Spotted Apatelodes Moth	Diamondback Moth
Shy Cosmet Moth	Common Fungus Moth	Scalloped Sack-bearer Moth	Evergreen Bagworm Moth
Sooty-winged Chalcoela Moth	Texas Mocis Moth	Afflicted Dagger Moth	Morning-glory Plume Moth
Double-banded Grass-veneer Moth	White-marked Tussock Moth	American Dagger Moth	Lesser Cornstalk Borer Moth
Eastern Grass-veneer Moth	White Edge Moth	Birch Dagger Moth	Mediterranean Flour Moth
Pasture Grass-veneer Moth	Dark-spotted Palthis Moth	Green Marvel Moth	Diamorphic Macalla Moth
Grape Leaffolder Moth	Brown Panopoda Moth	Speared Dagger Moth	Broad-banded Eulogica Moth
Julia's Dicymolomia Moth	Maple Looper Moth	Yellow-haired Dagger Moth	Clover Hayworm Moth
Waterlily leafcutter Moth	Black-banded Owlet Moth	Southern Oak Moth	Sycamore Webworm Moth
Spotted Peppergrass Moth	Isabelle Tiger Moth	Greater Oak Dagger Moth	Locust Leafroller Moth
Changeable Grass-veneer Moth	Speckled Renia Moth	Retarded Dagger Moth	Orange-tipped Oakworm Moth
Bold-feathered Grass Moth	Spotted Grass Moth	Ipsilon Dart Moth	Io Moth
Elegant Grass-veneer Moth	Deadwood Borer	Green Cutworm Moth	Tulip-tree Silkworm
Lucerne Moth	Six-spotted Gray Moth	Many-dotted Appleworm Moth	Regal Moth
Splendid Palpita Moth	Virginian Tiger Moth	Asteroid Moth	Rosy Maple Moth
Bluegrass Webworm Moth	Florida Tetanolita Moth	Brown-hooded Owlet Moth	Imperial Moth
Titan Peale's Pyralid Moth	Lunate Zale Moth	Grateful Midget Moth	Cecropia Moth
Bicolored Pyrausta Moth	Variable Zanclognatha Moth	Variegated Midget Moth	Lesser Peachtree Borer Moth
Variable Reddish Pyrausta Moth	Lettered Zanclognatha Moth	Scalloped Sallow Moth	Riley's Clearwing Moth
Double-striped Scoparia Moth	Grayish Zanclognatha Moth	Beautiful Wood-nymph Moth	Dogwood Borer Moth
Celery Leaftier Moth	Large Paectes Moth	Harris's Three-spot Moth	Elm Sphinx
Genista Broom Moth	Black-smudged Chionodes Moth	Corn Earworm Moth	Catalpa Sphinx
Snowy Urola Moth	Fall Cankerworm Moth	Lupatus Straw Moth	Virginia Creeper Sphinx
Schlaeger's Fruitworm Moth	Oak Besma Moth	Explicit Arches Moth	Snowberry Clearwing
Oak Leaftier Moth	Faint-spotted Angle Moth	Unarmed Wainscot Moth	Hummingbird Clearwing
Arched Hooktip Moth	Tulip-tree Beauty Moth	Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth	Carolina Sphinx
Rose Hooktip Moth	Beggar Moth	Black-bordered Lemon Moth	Small-eyed Sphinx
Planthopper Parasite Moth	Grapevine Looper Moth	Flame-shouldered Dart Moth	Spotted Thyris Moth
False Underwing Moth	Common Eupithecia Moth	Hebrew Moth	Apple Trumpet Leaf Miner
Harnessed Tiger Moth	Confused Eusarca Moth	Small Brown Quaker Moth	Robinson's Acleris Moth
Clover Looper Moth	Chickweed Geometer Moth	Ragweed Flower Moth	Red-banded Leafroller Moth
Forage Looper Moth	Common Angle Moth	Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth	Parallel-banded Leafroller Moth
Ilia Underwing Moth	Canadian Melanolophia Moth	Common Sragueia Moth	Oblique-banded Leafroller Moth
Bride Underwing Moth	Juniper Geometer Moth	Greater Black-letter Dart Moth	Garden Tortrix Moth
Black Bit Moth	Common Tan Wave Moth	Small Baileya Moth	The Batman Moth
Yellow-collared Scape Moth	Friendly Probole Moth	Black-spotted Prominent Moth	Locust Twig Borer Moth
Delicate Cycnia Moth	Large Lace-bordered Moth	Walnut Caterpillar Moth	Brighton's Epiblema Moth
Salt Marsh Moth	Wavy-lined Emerald Moth	Yellow-necked Caterpillar Moth	Ragweed Borer Moth
Milkweed Tussock Moth	False Crocus Geometer Moth	White Furcula Moth	Reddish Eucosma Moth
Locust Underwing Moth	Saddleback Caterpillar Moth	Wavy-lined Heterocampa Moth	Sculptured Moth
Virgin Tiger Moth	Purple-crested Slug Moth	Saddled Prominent Moth	Labyrinth Moth
Sycamore Tussock Moth	Spiny Oak-slug Moth	Double-lined Prominent Moth	Black-shaded Platynota Moth
Banded Tussock Moth	Spun Glass Slug Moth	White-dotted Prominent Moth	Tufted Apple Budmoth
Baltimore Bomolocha Moth	Yellow-shouldered Slug Moth	Angulose Prominent Moth	Sparganothis Fruitworm Moth
Gray-edged Bomolocha Moth	Nason's Slug Moth	Red-humped Caterpillar Moth	Ailanthus Webworm Moth
Giant Leopard Moth	Smaller Parasa Moth	Black-blotched Schizura Moth	Clemen's False Skeletonizer Moth
Fall Webworm Moth	Monkey Slug Moth	Unicorn Caterpillar Moth	Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth

Damselfly Species

Ebony Jewelwing	Stream Bluet
Variable Dancer	Citrine Forktail
Azure Bluet	Fragile Forktail
Double-striped Bluet	Eastern Forktail
Familiar Bluet	Slender Spreadwing

Dragonfly Species

Slender Spreadwing	Common Green Darner	Painted Skimmer
Azure Bluet	Fawn Darner	Willow Skimmer
Double-striped Bluet	Swamp Darner	Wandering Glider
Familiar Bluet	Common Sanddragon	Spot-winged Glider
Stream Bluet	Brown Spiketail	Eastern Glider Amberwing
Citrine Forktail	Tiger Spiketail	Common Whitetail
Fragile Forktail	Twin-spotted Spiketail	Autumn Meadowhawk
Eastern Forktail	Halloween Spiketail	Black Saddlebags
Violet (Variable) Dancer	Slaty Skimmer

 

Fungi at Mt. Pleasant

Meadow Mushroom	Velvet Shank	Cinnabar Red Polypore
Scaly Wood Mushroom	Oyster Mushroom	Turkey Tail
Purple-spored Puffball	Fawn Mushroom	Violet Tooth
Giant Puffball	Glistening Inkcap	Crown-tipped Coral
Streaked Bird's Nest	Scaly Ink Cap	Crowded Parchment
Gemmed Puffball	Tree Ear	Cherry Knot Gall
Parasol Mushroom	Common Earthball	Walter's Earth Tongue
Fly Amanita	White Green-algae Coral	Black Jelly Drops
Crimped Gill	Stinky Squid	Yellow Fairy Cups
Shaggy Mane	Mossy Maple Polypore	Stalked Hairy Fairy Cup
Silver Leaf Fungus	Sulfur Shelf	Tar Spot of Maple
Powder-scale Pholiota	Hairy Panus	Cedar Apple Rust
Fused Marasmius	Milk-white Toothed Polypore	Beech Hypoxylon
Broad Gill	Blackfoot Polypore	Alder Tongues
Black-stalked Marasmius	Gilled Bracket	Witches Butter
Orange Mycena	Hexagonal-pored Polypore
Walnut Mycena	Flecked-flesh Polypore
Luminescent Panelius	Cracked Cap Polypore

 

Lichen at Mt. Pleasant

Crustose Lichens:	Foliose Lichens:
Common Button Lichen	Candleflame Lichen
Gray-rimmed Lichen	Common Greenshield Lichen
Red Firedot Lichen	Wrinkled Loop Lichen
Powdery Goldspeck Lichen	Powdery Axil-bristle Lichen
Common Goldspeck Lichen	Southern Powdered Ruffle Lichen
Brown-eyed Rim Lichen	Salted Ruffle Lichen
Rock Disk Lichen	Rough Speckled Shield Lichen
Fluffy Disk Lichen	Meally Rosette Lichen
Stilling's Disk Lichen	Dragon Cladonia Lichen
Speckled Blister Lichen
Black Stone Lichen
Common Powderhorn Lichen
Egg-yolk Lichen

 

Plants at Mt. Pleasant

Native Tree Species

Box Elder	Flowering Dogwood	White Pine
Red Maple	Hawthorn	American Sycamore
Silver Maple	Common Persimmon	Black Cherry
Sugar Maple	American Beech	Choke Cherry
Serviceberry	Black Locust	White Oak
Paw Paw	American Holly	Black Oak
River Birch	Black Walnut	Chestnut Oak
American Hornbeam	Eastern Red Cedar	Willow Oak
Mockernut Hickory	Sweet Gum	Red Oak
Pignut Hickory	Tulip Poplar	Black Willow
Common Hackberry	Sweetbay Magnolia	Sassafras
Eastern Redbud	Red Mulberry	Bald Cypress
White Fringetree	Black Gum	Slippery Elm
Silky Dogwood	Ironwood	American Elm
Speckled Alder	Swamp Cottonwood

Native Shrub Species

Devil's Walking Stick	Hydrangea	Smooth Sumac
American Beautyberry	St. John's Wart	Staghorn Sumac
New Jersey Tea	Inkberry	Pasture Rose
Buttonbush	Winterberry	Allegany Blackberry
Sweet Pepperbush	Virginia Sweetspire	Black Raspberry
Red Twig Dogwood	Spicebush	Elderberry
American Hazelnut	Black Chockberry	Coral Berry
Witch Hazel	Ninebark	Blackhaw
Gray Dogwood	Box Elder

Native Vines Species

Poison Ivy	Virginia Creeper
American Bittersweet	Riverbank Grape
Coral Honeysuckle	Summer Grape
Greenbriar	Virgin's Bower

Fern Species

Ladyfern

Eastern Hayscented Fern

Christmas Fern

Ostrich Fern

Sensitive Fern

New York Fern

Cutleaf Grapefern

Herbaceous Perennials and Wildflowers 

Agrimony, Small-flowered Aster, Heath Aster, Purple-stemmed Avens, White Beggar-ticks, Swamp Bindweed, Hedge Black-eyed Susan Bloodroot Blue Curls Bluebells, Virginia Boneset Buckwheat, Climbing False Burdock, Common Buttercup, Bulbous Buttercup, Kidneyleaf Campion, White Chickweed, Common Chickweed, Star Chicory Clearweed Cleavers Clover, Rabbit-foot Clover, Red Clover, White Clover, Black Coneflower, Green headed/Tall

Cress, Hairy Bitter Cress, Mouse-ear Cress, Winter Daisy, Oxeye Dayflower, Asiatic Dock, Bitter/Broad Dodder, Common Evening-primrose, Common Everlasting, Sweet Fleabane, Daisy Galinsoga Garlic, Field Gill-over-the-ground Goldenrod, Canada Goldenrod, Flat-topped Goldenrod, Rough-stemmed Ground Cherry, Smooth Heal-all Horse-nettle Horseweed Indian Hemp Indian Tobacco Jack-in-the-pulpit Jimsonweed Joe-Pye Weed, Hollow Knapweed, Brown

Knapweed, Spotted Knotweed, Virginia Lady’s Thumb Lamb’s Quarter Lilies, Fawn Lobelia, Great May-apple Mercury, Three-seeded Milkweed, Common Milkweed, Swamp Mugwort, Common Mullein, Moth Mustard, Garlic Nightshade, Bittersweet Nightshade, Black/Common Pennycress, Field Peppergrass, Field Peppergrass, Wild Peppermint Perilla Periwinkle, Lesser Plantain, Broadleaved/Common Plantain, English Pokeweed Queen Anne’s Lace

Ragweed, Common Ragweed, Great Rue-anemone Skunk Cabbage, Eastern Snakeroot, Clustered Solomon’s Seal, False Spring Beauty Spurge, Flowering Strawberry, Indian Tearthumb, Arrow-leaved Tearthumb, Halbard-leaved Tearthumb, Perfoliata Thistle, Bull Thistle, Canada Tich-trefoil, Hoary Toothwort, Slender Touch-me-not, Spotted Trout Lily Velvetleaf Vervain, White Violet, Common Blue Violet, Pale Watercress Water-pepper, Mild Wood-sorrel, Yellow Yarrow