Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - Occurrence Profile

Bell Museum plants (MIN:Plants)

Catalog #: 980839

Occurrence ID: 61372dc3-be71-419b-8a34-2a356be70249

Secondary Catalog #: 1405755

Taxon: Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton

Family: Ericaceae

Determiner: Lee, Michael

Date Determined: 07/Aug/2015

Collector: Lee, Michael

Number: MDL7021

Date: 2015-08-07

Verbatim Date: 7 August 2015

Additional Collectors: Wovcha, Daniel

Locality: United States, Minnesota, St. Louis, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Rolling to fairly rugged bedrock terrain along the Canadian border 22 miles north of Ely, on a small island in the northern portion of Sunday Bay, Crooked Lake.

Latitude/Longitude: 48.2204316895 -91.876430148

Verbatim Coordinates: 5341411N 583455E; T66N R12W sec9

Elevation: 381 meters Verbatim Elevation: 1250 feet

Habitat: Local on the bedrock shore of a small island. A large and dense patch, perched on a nearly level granitic shelf ~18-48 inches above the lake, mostly within ~15 feet of the water's edge. Full sun to partial shade of rather small Pinus resinosa, P. banksiana, and Thuja occidentalis. Along bedrock crevices and in shallow detrital soil over bedrock.

Associated Taxa: Associates include Prunus susquehanae, Spiraea alba, Myrica gale, Vaccinium angustifolium, Euthamia graminifolia, Carex katahdinensis, Agrostis scabra.

Specimen Media

Open Medium File

Open Large File

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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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