Hardscrabble Woods/MG Tusler Sanctuary

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Area and County

Hennepin County

 

 

 


Size

31 acres

Printable map
 
Maps

Map with GPS coordinates

 
Parking

N44 54.860, W93 40.681

Park on the shoulder.

 
Hiking Trails

West of the road a short trail leads from the memorial stone, around a pond, to a residential area south of the preserve. There are no other trails.

 
Hunting

No hunting


Ecological Classification

Province

Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province

Ecological Classification

Section

Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal

Subsection(s)

Big Woods

Land Type Association(s)

Maple Plain Moraine

 
Native Plant Communities1

Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods)


Ownership

 
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Comments

The larger section, east of the road, has a very dense canopy that extends beyond the road (Hardscrabble Circle) that surrounds the site. In this section there are no open areas and little edge habitat, resulting in sparse herb layer growth and almost no shrub layer growth.


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Birds

 

 
 

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Black-capped Chickadee


Mammals

 

 
 

whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

whitetail deer


Plants

University of Minnesota Herbarium Plant List


Plants frequently found in:

Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods) MHs39c

 
 

American basswood (Tilia americana)

American hazel (Corylus americana)

American hog peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata var. bracteata)

black medick (Medicago lupulina)

bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

broad-leaved arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)

broad-leaved cattail (Typha latifolia)

bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa)

Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)

Canada moonseed (Menispermum canadense)

Canadian woodnettle (Laportea canadensis)

chokecherry (Prunus virginiana var. virginiana)

cleavers (Galium aparine)

common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)

common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale)

common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

common mullein (Verbascum thapsus ssp. thapsus)

common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia)

early figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata)

early meadow rue (Thalictrum dioicum)

eastern bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix)

eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana)

field pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)

field thistle (Cirsium discolor)

fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum)

garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)

glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus)

green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)

ironwood (Ostrya virginiana var. virginiana)

Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii)

large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)

Morrow’s honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii)

northern bedstraw (Galium boreale)

northern lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum)

northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum)

northern prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum)

northern red oak (Quercus rubra)

pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia)

plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera)

pointed-leaved tick-trefoil (Desmodium glutinosum)

quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)

sharp-lobed hepatica (Anemone acutiloba)

starry false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum stellatum)

stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis)

sugar maple (Acer saccharum ssp. saccharum)

Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum)

western poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)

white avens (Geum canadense)

white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima var. altissima)

wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

wild ginger (Asarum canadense)

wild grape (Vitis riparia)

wild leek (Allium tricoccum)

wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)

woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea)

yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis)

American hazel

 

 

 

 

bur oak (var. macrocarpa)

 

 

 

 

Canada moonseed

 

 

 

 

chokecherry

 

 

 

 

common mullein

 

 

 

 

early meadow rue

 

 

 

 

field pussytoes

 

 

 

 

large-flowered bellwort

 

 

 

 

northern bedstraw

 

 

 

 

quaking aspen

 

 

 

 

sharp-lobed hepatica

 

 

 

 

Virginia waterleaf

 

 

 

 

white snakeroot

 

 

 

 

wild columbine

 

 

 

 

wild geranium

 

 

 

 

wild ginger

 

 


Visits

7/8/2011

   

 

Driving Directions

 

 

 

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