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36 <br />c�ro� <br />G -io�r <br />Table 3. Maintained / Disturbed <br />Canopy <br />Shrub <br />Herbaceous <br />Black cherry <br />Azalea <br />Bernu,da grass <br />Eastern red cedar <br />Butterfly bush <br />Chickweed <br />Loblolly pine" <br />Yucca <br />Dandelion <br />Sweet gum <br />Yaupon holly <br />Japanese stiltgrass <br />Pin oak <br />Boxwood <br />Tall fescue <br />Red maple <br />Variegated Chinese privet <br />White clover <br />White pine <br />Downy arrowwood <br />False nettle <br />Black gum <br />Shrubby lespedeza <br />Dog fennel <br />Deodar cedar <br />Red mulberry <br />Horseweed <br />Green ash <br />Crab grass <br />Japanese maple <br />Bahia grass <br />Magnolia <br />Lamb's ear <br />Princess tree <br />Pokeberry <br />Mockernut hickory <br />Indiangrass <br />Silver ash <br />Rosemary <br />Sycamore <br />Pompas grass <br />Willow oak <br />Tick trefoil <br />Cape myrtle <br />Flowering dogwood <br />Faunal species observed within the Maintained / Disturbed community include black <br />ants, garden spiders, grey squirrel, and the domestic pig. . <br />3.2 Rare Species <br />Catena searched for protected species and /or habitat in the project area as listed for <br />Orange County (Appendix 1). No protected species or habitat was observed within the <br />project area. <br />3.3 In vasi ve Species <br />Invasive species are non - indigenous species that compete with the native plants for the <br />necessary nutrients, light, space, water, or food needed for survival. Invasive species <br />often have the ability to grow and reproduce quicker than the native species, thus <br />threatening the survival and diversity of the native species. Several invasive species are <br />present in the project area. Most were observed along forest margins adjacent to the <br />maintained areas such as pastures and recreational fields. Chinese wisteria was the most <br />abundant and was located throughout the dry -mesic oak hickory forest near the <br />community margins. Tree of heaven, Chinese privet, multifora rose, and Japanese <br />honeysuckle, were very abundant along the woodland margin of the western property <br />boundary of parcel 1. The pond contained an abundant amount of submersed aquatic <br />vegetation mostly composed of hydrilla. Invasives observed within the study area are <br />included in Table 4. <br />Table 4. Invasive species <br />Tree Shrub Herbaceous Vine <br />Tree of heaven Chinese privet Chinese lespedeza Winter creeper <br />Princess tree Multiflora rose Japanese stiltgrass Japanese honeysuckle <br />Shrub lespedeza Gill- over - the - ground Wisteria <br />Johnson grass <br />Asiatic dayflower <br />Hydrilla <br />CFS Biological Inventory 5 October 2011 <br />TCG Job 46145 <br />