Webb’s Mill Bog is located within the Greenwood Wildlife Management Area in southern NJ.

I made this hike by following their small trail and boardwalk system, you get an up close view of some very interesting plants. From wild orchids, to pitcher plants, to things that looked sticky, you will find them all just inches from where you stand on the boardwalk.

Like many colonial Pinelands industrial sites, the sawmill and tar kiln at Webb’s Mill are only a memory. Zebulon Webb established a sawmill and village here in 1774. A tar kiln was later built; however, both were in ruins by 1839. Today the forest has reclaimed this industrial complex, and it is now part of the 16,333 acre Greenwood Forest/Pasadena tract. Remnants of the old charcoal pit, the dam, mill pond, and sand roads are still visible to the careful observer.

How to get there:

To get there, I eventually got onto Cr-539 south. We were looking for the Webb’s Mill Branch bridge and the Greenwood Wildlife Management Area sign. The trail head is across the street and about 40 feet south of the WMA sign.

Webb’s Mill Bog is home to many endangered bog plants such as orchids, sundews, pitcher plants, and bladderworts.

Looking down

Louis Dallara Photograph on the walkway

View of the bog

Sundews photo

Like many colonial Pinelands industrial sites, the sawmill and tar kiln at Webb’s Mill are only a memory. Zebulon Webb established a sawmill and village here in 1774. A tar kiln was later built; however, both were in ruins by 1839. Today the forest has reclaimed this industrial complex, and it is now part of the 16,333 acre Greenwood Forest/Pasadena tract. Remnants of the old charcoal pit, the dam, mill pond, and sand roads are still visible to the careful observer.

Webb Mills Bog

Webb Mills Bog Flower

Webb Mills Bog

Webb Mills Bog

Webb Mills Bog

Webb Mills Bog

Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic white cedar)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Pinus rigida (pitch pine)
Quercus marilandica (black jack oak)
Rubus cuneifolius (sand dewberry) 6/6/98
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)

Shrubs:
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (bearberry)
Chamaedaphne calyculata (leatherleaf)
Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepperbush)
Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry)
Gaylussacia dumosa (dwarf huckleberry) 6/6/98
Gaylussacia frondosa (dangleberry)
Hudsonia ericoides (golden heather)
Ilex glabra (inkberry) 6/6/98
Kalmia angustifolia (sheep laurel) 6/6/98
Lyonia mariana (staggerbush) 6/6/98
Myrica pensylvanica (bayberry)
Quercus ilicifolia (scrub oak)
Rhododendron viscosum (swamp azalea)
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry) 6/6/98 7/07/01
Vaccinium macrocarpon (cranberry) 7/07/01

Herbs:
Arethusa bulbosa (arethusa) 6/6/87
Calopogon tuberosa (grass pink orchid) 6/6/98
Coronilla varia (crown vetch) 6/6/98
Drosera filiformis (threadleaf sundew) 7/07/01
Drosera intermedia (spatulate sundew)
Drosera rotundifolia (roundleaf sundew) 6/6/98
Eriocaulon compressum (flattened pipewort)  7/07/01
Eupatorium pilosum (rough thoroughwort)
Hypericum perforatum (common St. Johnswort) 6/6/98
Hypochoeris radicata (cat’s ear) 6/6/98 7/07/01
Leiophyllum buxifolium (sand myrtle) 7/07/01
Lophiola aurea (gold crest) — looks like white pussy willows 7/07/01
Narthecium americanum (bog asphodel) grass-like stuff 7/07/01
Nymphaea odorata (fragrant white water lily) 6/6/98 7/07/01
Orontium aquaticum (goldenclub or neverwet)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain) 6/6/98
Pogonia ophioglossoides (rose Pogonia) light pink 6/6/98 7/07/01
Sarracenia purpurea (pitcher plant) 6/6/98
Triadenum virginicum (marsh St. Johnswort) sticks straight up, leaves hugging stem
Utricularia cornuta (horned bladderwort) 6/6/98 7/07/01
Utricularia fibrosa (fibrous bladderwort) 6/6/98 7/07/01
Utricularia subulata (zig-zag bladderwort) 6/6/98
Xerophyllum asphodeloides (turkey beard)

Rushes:
Juncus pelocarpus var. (brown-fruited rush)
Juncus tenuis var. tenuis (path rush)

Sedges:
Bulbostylis capillaris (densetuft hairsedge)
Carex exilis (coastal sedge)
Carex striata (Walter’s sedge)
Cyperus dentatus (toothed flatsedge)
Dulichium arundinaceum (three-way sedge)
Eleocharis tuberculosas (spikerush) found by Bill Olson on 12/13/97 field trip.
Rhynchospora alba (white beaksedge)
Rhynchospora fusca (brown beaksedge)
Rhynchospora pallida (pale beaksedge)

Grasses:
Andropogon virginicus var. abbreviatus (bushy beard grass)
Eragrostis curvula (African love grass)
Panicum virgatum (switch panic grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Lycopodium alopecuroides (foxtail clubmoss)
Lycopodium appressum (southern clubmoss)
Lycopodium carolinianum (Carolina clubmoss)
Pteridium aquilinum (bracken fern)
Schizaea pusilla (curly grass fern)

Other:
Sphagnum sp. (sphagnum moss)

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