Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - Occurrence Profile

Bell Museum plants (MIN:Plants)

Catalog #: 981899

Occurrence ID: 3c58493a-c7ae-4c29-a622-176b2f5ebc48

Secondary Catalog #: 1407744

Taxon: Carex meadii Dewey

Family: Cyperaceae

Determiner: Lee, Michael

Date Determined: 03/Jun/2016

Collector: Lee, Michael

Number: MDL7415

Date: 2016-06-03

Verbatim Date: 3 June 2016

Locality: United States, Minnesota, Todd, Level to rolling sand plain two miles northeast of Little Sauk, six miles south of Long Prairie, along U.S. Highway 71 at Township Road 137 (231st Avenue).

Latitude/Longitude: 45.88319634 -94.89121237

Verbatim Coordinates: 5082809N 353252E; T128N R34W sec24

Elevation: 402 meters Verbatim Elevation: 1320 feet

Habitat: Uncommon and quite local in an old gravel pit complex. Loose colony of several dozen fertile culms in a very small and degraded dry-mesic prairie remnant. Compacted gravelly loam; in a level area that was likely not actually mined but most likely was somewhat impacted by past gravel mining-related activities. Full sun.

Associated Taxa: Associates include Poa pratensis, Sorghastrum nutans, Lithospermum canescens, Potentilla arguta, Galium boreale, Cirsium hillii, Viola pedatifida, Amorpha canescens, Toxicodendron rydbergii.

Specimen Media

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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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