Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - Occurrence Profile

Bell Museum plants (MIN:Plants)

Catalog #: 924769

Occurrence ID: dd10ae0c-b746-4d35-ad7a-27120fb6439e

Secondary Catalog #: 1003008

Taxon: Abies balsamea (L.) Miller

Family: Pinaceae

Collector: Lee, Michael

Number: MDL3453

Date: 2003-07-15

Locality: United States, Minnesota, Todd, 2.5 miles west-northwest of Staples. North of U.S. Highway 10, near the Wadena County line. NW1/4 of NE1/4 of section;;133N;33W;04

Latitude/Longitude: 46.3614347 -94.8519195 +-800m.

Habitat: Gently-rolling sandy outwash plain; tamarack swamp. Mostly on outer margins of swamp where the patchy to interrupted canopy is co-dominated by Larix laricina and Fraxinus nigra, with occasional Betula papyrifera; in understory with Fraxinus nigra, Alnus incana, and Ulmus americana. Moist peat; water in shallow depressions. Additional associates include Picea glauca seedlings, Rhamnus alnifolia, Rubus pubescens, Mitella nuda, Cypripedium reginae, Platanthera aquilonis, Circaea alpina, Caltha palustris, Pyrola secunda, Linnaea borealis, Galium asprellum, Thelypteris palustris, Carex gynocrates, C. leptalea, C. hysteracina [sic], C. aurea, Glyceria striata, Parthenocissus inserta.

Description: Infrequent. Seedling and sapling to 12 feet tall.

Preparations: single sheet

Specimen Media

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Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota

Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.

For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Timothy Whitfeld, Collections Manager (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)

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