Dendrolycopodium hickeyi (W.H. Wagner, Beitel & R.C. Moran) A. Haines
Lycopodiaceae
Lee, Michael
12/Sep/2012
Lee, Michael
MDL6184
2012-09-12
12 September 2012
United States, Minnesota, Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness; Along the shores of Fall Lake in rolling bedrock terrain seven miles northeast of Ely; on the eastern portion of Mile Island, near campsite #2.
47.9641078983 -91.7109390762
5313115N 596224E; T63N R11W sec3
402 meters
1320 feet
Local on this large sandy esker. Loose patch of a few hundred vertical shoots in an ecotonal setting just back from a small shoreline meadow on the north side of the narrow island. Shaded setting. Canopy includes Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Populus tremuloides, and rarely, large Thuja occidentalis. Sparse understory and shrub layer here. Moist sandy soil.
Associates include Vaccinium angustifolium, Rosa acicularis, Maianthemum canadense, Cornus canadensis, Lycopus uniflorus, Iris versicolor, Calamagrostis canadensis.