United States, Minnesota, Pine, Banning State Park. On the east side of the Kettle River in rugged bedrock terrain 1.5 miles north-northeast of downtown Sandstone, one mile north-northeast of the railroad trestle.
46.14963567 -92.85134023
5110684N 511480E; T42N R20W sec3
314 meters
1030 feet
Very local on the steep mid- to upper portion of a 120-foot, northwest-facing slope, one mile north-northeast of the railroad trestle. Frequent on dry sandstone cliffs that rise to ~40 feet high. Shaded below a patchy canopy of Betula papyrifera and Acer rubrum, and a rather dense understory of Acer spicatum and Betula alleghaniensis (these growing at cliff-top and on upper ledges. Loose patches, rooting along horizontal crevices and on narrow sandy ledges.
Additional associates include Polypodium virginianum, Dryopteris fragrans, Aralia racemosa.