Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - Occurrence Profile

Bell Museum plants (MIN:Plants)

Catalog #: 973090

Occurrence ID: 5fedf626-96ee-468a-9fcf-fc5114a743e5

Secondary Catalog #: 1398643

Taxon: Carex echinata subsp. echinata

Family: Cyperaceae

Determiner: Lee, Michael

Date Determined: 20/Jul/2012

Collector: Lee, Michael

Number: MDL6023

Date: 2012-07-20

Verbatim Date: 20 July 2012

Additional Collectors: Kerns, Courtney

Locality: United States, Minnesota, Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness; Rolling bedrock terrain on the northeast side of Wind Lake, 17 miles northeast of Ely.

Latitude/Longitude: 48.0177597569 -91.5059747201

Verbatim Coordinates: 5319354N 611408E; T64N R9W sec17

Elevation: 411 meters Verbatim Elevation: 1350 feet

Habitat: Local, occasional on the margin of a beaver-altered poor fen in a small (~50-acre) peatland. Small loose clumps, in wetter spots along previously flooded beaver runs (shallow beaver-excavated channels). This area recovering from flooding; dam failure occurred ~10-20 years ago. Full sun. Wet peat.

Associated Taxa: Associates include Eriophorum tenellum, Carex stricta, C. utriculata, Dulichium arundinaceum, Glyceria canadensis, Iris versicolor, Lysimachia terrestris, Drosera rotundifolia, Menyanthes trifoliata.

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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