United States, Minnesota, Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness; Along the Snowbank Hiking Trail in strongly rolling bedrock terrain on the northwest side of Snowbank Lake, 20 miles east-northeast of Ely.
47.99562933 -91.44659423
5316981N 615886E; T64N R9W sec26
442 meters
1450 feet
Occasional to frequent in mesic pine forest. Patchy to quite open canopy (due to 1999 windstorm) of young Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera and Populus tremuloides, and occasional large Pinus banksiana and P. strobus. In tall dense shrub layer with Corylus cornuta and Acer spicatum. Rocky silty soil.
Additional associates include Aster macrophyllus, Aralia nudicaulis, Pteridium aquilinum, Rubus pubescens, R. parviflorus, Diervilla lonicera, Toxicodendron rydbergii.