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Minnesota Biological Survey vegetation releves (DNR-MBS)

Plant species occurrence data from 11,126 vegetation plots collected by the Minnesota Biological Survey Minnesota Department of Natural Resources throughout the State of Minnesota between 1986 and 2019.
Contact: Bruce Carlson (Bruce.Carlson@state.mn.us)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: fd845849-cd61-4301-83bb-ebd0267b0d70
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Collection Statistics
  • 394,340 specimen records
  • 394,340 (100%) georeferenced
  • 202 families
  • 695 genera
  • 1,649 species
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that family
  • Agropyron (3)
  • Agrostis (763)
  • Alopecurus (6)
  • Ammophila (6)
  • Andropogon (1503)
  • Anthoxanthum (63)
  • Aristida (47)
  • Avena (2)
  • Avenula (19)
  • Beckmannia (3)
  • Bouteloua (835)
  • Brachyelytrum (879)
  • Bromus (1440)
  • Buchloe (1)
  • Calamagrostis (2328)
  • Calamovilfa (109)
  • Cenchrus (12)
  • Cinna (684)
  • Danthonia (443)
  • Deschampsia (290)
  • Diarrhena (1)
  • Dichanthelium (743)
  • Digitaria (47)
  • Distichlis (20)
  • Echinochloa (47)
  • Elymus (1621)
  • Eragrostis (117)
  • Eriochloa (1)
  • Festuca (394)
  • Glyceria (1010)
  • Hesperostipa (742)
  • Hordeum (78)
  • Koeleria (543)
  • Leersia (196)
  • Lolium (1)
  • Milium (260)
  • Muhlenbergia (1417)
  • Nassella (31)
  • Oryzopsis (3181)
  • Panicum (506)
  • Pascopyrum (7)
  • Paspalum (12)
  • Phalaris (493)
  • Phleum (216)
  • Phragmites (144)
  • Piptatherum (390)
  • Poa (2178)
  • Puccinellia (7)
  • Schedonorus (3)
  • Schizachne (895)
  • Schizachyrium (1020)
  • Scolochloa (28)
  • Setaria (97)
  • Sorghastrum (757)
  • Spartina (632)
  • Sphenopholis (51)
  • Sporobolus (815)
  • Torreyochloa (4)
  • Triplasis (1)
  • Trisetum (5)
  • Vulpia (10)
  • XElyhordeum (1)
  • Zizania (34)
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