Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - Occurrence Profile

Bell Museum plants (MIN:Plants)

Catalog #: 973324

Occurrence ID: d9f1090a-8fe5-4242-9149-01b737be1088

Secondary Catalog #: 1398877

Taxon: Ophioglossum pusillum Rafinesque

Family: Ophioglossaceae

Determiner: Lee, Michael

Date Determined: 26/Jul/2011

Collector: Lee, Michael

Number: MDL5646

Date: 2011-07-26

Verbatim Date: 26 July 2011

Additional Collectors: Wovcha, Daniel

Locality: United States, Minnesota, Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness; Strongly rolling bedrock terrain north of the Fernberg Road, 14 miles east-northeast of Ely, just north of Wood Lake.

Latitude/Longitude: 47.99246263 -91.58299607

Verbatim Coordinates: 5316433N 605717E, 5316460N 605751E, 5316417N 605687E; T64N R10W sec26

Elevation: 411 meters Verbatim Elevation: 1350 feet

Habitat: Local along the margin of an old beaver meadow in a basin. Loose patches in a narrow ecotonal zone between an Alnus incana-fringed upland and a wet Calamagrostis canadensis - Carex lacustris meadow. Several hundred plants along ~100 yards. Dam breached prior to 1991, lowering the water level ~2-3 feet. Wet-mesic, silty-organic soil. Full sun to partial shade.

Associated Taxa: Associates include Carex stricta, Calamagrostis canadensis, Eupatorium maculatum, Campanula aparinoides, Cirsium arvense, Botrychium multifidum, Rubus strigosus, Spiraea alba.

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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