Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - Occurrence Profile

Bell Museum plants (MIN:Plants)

Catalog #: 977246

Occurrence ID: da49b150-46be-4a14-ba9c-768997959cf5

Secondary Catalog #: 1402830

Taxon: Ellisia nyctelea (L.) L.

Family: Boraginaceae

Determiner: Lee, Michael (15/Jun/2014)

Collector: Lee, Michael

Number: MDL6481

Date: 2014-06-15

Verbatim Date: 15 June 2014

Locality: United States, Minnesota, Fillmore, Along the upper reaches of Diamond Creek (north fork) in rugged forested terrain four miles east-southeast of Whalan, 6.5 miles east of Lanesboro.

Latitude/Longitude: 43.71342009817 -91.84409318287

Verbatim Coordinates: 4840693N 593119E; T103N R8W sec19

Elevation: 302 meters Verbatim Elevation: 990feet

Habitat: Local on the narrow valley bottomland between steep, 120-foot bluffs. A loose to rather dense patch in degraded (past grazed) mesic forest, on an alluvial terrace just above the normal flood elevation of the creek. Shaded beneath Ulmus americana, Fraxinus nigra, Carya cordiformis, and Acer saccharum.

Associated Taxa: Additional associates include Hydrophyllum virginianum, Heracleum lanatum, Arctium minus, Cryptotaenia canadensis, Osmorhiza longistylis, Glechoma hederacea. Also occurring rather sporadically in degraded mesic hardwood forest on the adjacent north-facing bluff.

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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.

Record ID: da49b150-46be-4a14-ba9c-768997959cf5

For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Dr. George Weiblen (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)

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