Full Record Details

Catalog #: 981921

Occurrence ID: 82209f5e-96bd-45b9-8b35-49222287d7db

Family: Cyperaceae

Collector: Lee, Michael

Number: MDL6965

Date: 2015-07-08

Verbatim Date: 8 July 2015

Additional Collectors: Smith, Welby

Locality: United States, Minnesota, Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. On the shores of Basswood Lake in fairly rugged bedrock terrain 11 miles north-northeast of Ely, in the western portion of Jackfish Bay.

Latitude/Longitude: 48.041808975  -91.7253967841

Verbatim Coordinates: 5321733N 595002E, 5321730N 594987E, 5321793N 595082E; T64N R11W sec10

Elevation: 398 meters Verbatim Elevation: 1305 feet

Habitat: Low, 1/2-acre island. Small colonies (6-10 clumps) 1-3 feet above lake level. Shallow soil (organic silt to coarse sand and rock fragments) over gently sloping, rounded to shallowly depressional, granitic rock. Full sun to partial shade (Pinus banksiana, P. strobus, Thuja occidentalis). Rather dense and mostly robust clumps, with up to 50 fertile culms. [This spot is very near, and similar to, the small islet where a specimen (MDL6305) identified by Reznicek and Rothrock as "Carex tincta" was collected in 2013.]

Associated Taxa: Associates include Spiraea alba, Myrica gale, Prunus susquehanae, Vaccinium angustifolium, V. macrocarpon, Dichanthelium acuminatum, Agrostis scabra, Euthamia graminifolia, Oenothera perennis.