United States, Minnesota, Stearns, Birch Lakes State Forest. Stearns County...Birch Lakes State Forest...just south of the Todd County line, between Big and Little Birch Lakes 1.5 miles southeast of Ward Springs, four miles south-southwest of Grey Eagle...T127N R33W NE1/4 of NW1/4 of NW1/4 Sec. 36...UTM: 5070382N 361265E. 127N 33W 36
45.766949 -94.777658 +-969m.
Rugged forested moraine ... in mesic hardwood forest dominated locally by Populus grandidentata, with Tilia americana and Quercus rubra scattered nearby. Ostrya virginiana common in understory ... on lower portion of fairly steep, 40-foot, north-facing slope. Gravelly-sand substrate. Associated species include Oryzopsis racemosa, O. asperifolia, Carex pensylvanica, Thalictrum dioicum, Uvularia grandiflora, Aster macrophyllus, Solidago flexicaulis, Symphoricarpos albus, Zanthoxylum americanum.