United States, Minnesota, Lake, North Shore. Lake County ... along the Superior Hiking Trail just southwest of Silver Bay ... T55N R8W NE1/4 of NW1/4 Sec. 1, NW1/4 of NE1/4 Sec. 1. 055N 08W 1
47.278711 -91.293084 +-969m.
On 3/4-mile long, south-facing, dry diabase cliff forming upper portion of 250-foot ridge along [trail]. Occasional in localized areas of extremely steep colluvial soil and talus which occur perched at various levels of these 60 to 120-foot cliffs. these are dry, shrub-dominated areas. Associates include Symphoricarpos albus, Rhus glabra, Amelanchier sp., Rubus strigosus, Prunus virginiana, Rosa acicularis, Diervilla lonicera, Corylus cornuta, Toxicodendron rybergii, Carex merritt-fernaldii, Agropyron trachycaulum, Woodsia ilvensis, Solidago juncea, Aquilegia canadensis.