Flandrau State Park

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Area and County

Brown County

 

 

 


Size

840 acres

 
 
Maps

Minnesota DNR All Season Map

 
Park Office

N44 17.622, W94 27.928

 
Hiking Trails

8 miles

 
Hunting

No hunting


Ecological Classification

Province

Prairie Parkland Province

Ecological Classification

Section

North Central Glaciated Plains

Subsection(s)

Minnesota River Prairie

Land Type Association(s)

Gibbon Till Plain

Grogan Sand Plain

Renville Till Plain

 
Native Plant Communities1

Dry Hill Prairie (Southern)

Silver Maple - (Virginia Creeper) Floodplain Forest

Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest

Wet Prairie (Southern)


Ownership

 
Links

Minnesota DNR


Comments

 


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Visitor Observations

   

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Amphibians

 

 
 

northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens)

northern leopard frog


Birds

Minnesota DNR Bird Checklist

 
 

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida)

Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)

Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)

Eastern Wood-peewee (Contopus virens)

Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)

American Goldfinch

 

 

 

 

American Robin

 

 

 

 

Great Blue Heron

 

 

 

 

Mourning Dove

 

 


Insects and Arachnids

 

 
 

common whitetail (Plathemis lydia)

dog day cicada (Tibicen canicularis)

eastern comma (Polygonia comma)

ebony jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata)

goldenrod bunch gall midge (Rhopalomyia solidaginis)

monarch (Danaus plexippus)

red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Walker’s cicada (Tibicen marginalis)

widow skimmer (Libellula luctuosa)

monarch

 

 

 

 

widow skimmer

 

 


Mammals

 

 
 

whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

whitetail deer


Plants

Two unexpected plants, swamp white oak and woolly burdock, can be found in the open area just north of the Beach House Shelter.


Plants frequently found in:

Dry Hill Prairie (Southern) UPs13d

Silver Maple - (Virginia Creeper) Floodplain Forest FFs68a

Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest MHs39a

Wet Prairie (Southern) WPs54b

 
 

American cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum)

American germander (Teucrium canadense)

American lopseed (Phryma leptostachya)

American vetch (Vicia americana ssp. americana)

annual fleabane (Erigeron annuus)

bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus var. corniculatus)

bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis)

bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)

black bindweed (Fallopia convolvulus)

black cherry (Prunus serotina var. serotina)

black medick (Medicago lupulina)

black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis)

black-seeded plantain (Plantago rugelii var. rugelii)

bland sweet cicely (Osmorhiza claytonii)

bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

bouncing bet (Saponaria officinalis)

boxelder (Acer negundo var. negundo)

bristly greenbrier (Smilax tamnoides)

broadleaf enchanter’s nightshade (Circaea lutetiana ssp. canadensis)

broad-leaved cattail (Typha latifolia)

bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa)

butternut (Juglans cinerea)

Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense)

Canada wildrye (Elymus canadensis)

Canadian horseweed (Conyza canadensis)

Canadian woodnettle (Laportea canadensis)

candle anemone (Anemone cylindrica)

catnip (Nepeta cataria)

cleavers (Galium aparine)

clustered black snakeroot (Sanicula odorata)

common burdock (Arctium minus)

common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale)

common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

common motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)

common mullein (Verbascum thapsus ssp. thapsus)

common plantain (Plantago major)

common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia)

common yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum var. perfoliatum)

curly dock (Rumex crispus)

cut-leaved coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata var. laciniata)

dame’s rocket (Hesperis matronalis)

desert false indigo (Amorpha fruticosa)

early figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata)

eastern bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix)

eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana)

field horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

field sow thistle (Sonchus arvensis)

field thistle (Cirsium discolor)

foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum ssp. jubatum)

garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)

giant chickweed (Myosoton aquaticum)

giant foxtail (Setaria faberi)

glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus)

golden alexanders (Zizia aurea)

gray-headed coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)

green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)

green foxtail (Setaria viridis var. viridis)

ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)

heal-all (Prunella vulgaris)

hoary alyssum (Berteroa incana)

ironwood (Ostrya virginiana var. virginiana)

Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)

leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)

marijuana (Cannabis sativa)

May-apple (Podophyllum peltatum)

Morrow’s honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii)

northern evening primrose (Oenothera parviflora)

northern hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)

northern prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum)

ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris var. pensylvanica)

plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera)

pointed-leaved tick-trefoil (Desmodium glutinosum)

red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa var. racemosa)

red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea ssp. sericea)

rough cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium)

Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia)

scouring rush horsetail (Equisetum hyemale var. affine)

Siberian elm (Ulmis pumila)

sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula)

silver maple (Acer saccharinum)

slippery elm (Ulmus rubra)

spotted lady’s thumb (Persicaria maculosa)

spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata)

spotted water hemlock (Cicuta maculata)

staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina)

stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis)

sugar maple (Acer saccharum ssp. saccharum)

swamp betony (Pedicularis lanceolata)

swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor)

sweet Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium purpureum)

tall bellflower (Campanulastrum americanum)

tall buttercup (Ranunculus acris)

upright carrionflower (Smilax ecirrhata)

Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)

Virginia groundcherry (Physalis virginiana var. virginiana)

Virginia stickseed (Hackelia virginiana)

Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum)

western poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)

white avens (Geum canadense)

white clover (Trifolium repens)

white mulberry (Morus alba)

white sage (Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana)

white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima var. altissima)

white sweet clover (Melilotus albus)

white vervain (Verbena urticifolia var. urticifolia)

wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa var. mollis)

wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

wild ginger (Asarum canadense)

wild grape (Vitis riparia)

woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea)

woolly burdock (Arctium tomentosum)

yellow foxtail (Setaria pumila ssp. pumila)

yellow wood sorrel (Oxalis stricta)

American cow parsnip

 

 

 

 

American germander

 

 

 

 

black bindweed

 

 

 

 

black cherry

 

 

 

 

black raspberry

 

 

 

 

broadleaf enchanter’s nightshade

 

 

 

 

Canadian woodnettle

 

 

 

 

catnip

 

 

 

 

common milkweed

 

 

 

 

common mullein

 

 

 

 

common yarrow

 

 

 

 

cut-leaved coneflower

 

 

 

 

dame’s rocket

 

 

 

 

eastern bottlebrush grass

 

 

 

 

field sow thistle

 

 

 

 

field thistle

 

 

 

 

gray-headed coneflower

 

 

 

 

heal-all

 

 

 

 

large-flowered bellwort

 

 

 

 

May-apple

 

 

 

 

Russian olive

 

 

 

 

spotted spurge

 

 

 

 

spotted water hemlock

 

 

 

 

tall bellflower

 

 

 

 

upright carrionflower

 

 

 

 

Virginia waterleaf

 

 

 

 

white snakeroot

 

 

 

 

wild geranium

 

 

 

 

woodbine

 

 

 

 

yellow wood sorrel

 


Visits

7/25/2011

   

 

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