Minnesota Seasons - Spring Creek Prairie SNA


Spring Creek Prairie SNA





			Goodhue County




Size	146 acres

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Parking	N44 33.100, W92 35.494

Hiking Trails	None

Hunting	No hunting

Ecological Classification	Province	Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province
	Section	Paleozoic Plateau
	Subsection(s)	The Blufflands
	Land Type Association(s)	Alluvial Plain Elba Slopes

Native Plant Communities¹	Dry Bedrock Bluff Prairie (Southern) Oak - Shagbark Hickory Woodland

Ownership

Links	Minnesota DNR

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Oak - Shagbark Hickory Woodland

Dry Bedrock Bluff Prairie (Southern)

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Birds

	Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus)

Fungi

	Gray False Death Cap (Amanita citrina var. grisea)

Insects and Arachnids

	eastern daddy-long-legs (Phalangium opilio) eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) monarch (Danaus plexippus) pelecinid wasp (Pelecinus polyturator)

Mammals

	whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Plants	One plant species with protected status in Minnesota is found here: Endangered – Louisiana bladderpod (Lesquerella ludoviciana) One of the largest known populations of Louisiana bladderpod grows here. Plants frequently found in: Dry Bedrock Bluff Prairie (Southern) UPs13c Oak - Shagbark Hickory Woodland FDs38a

	American basswood (Tilia americana) American germander (Teucrium canadense) black medick (Medicago lupulina) bracted spiderwort (Tradescantia bracteata) butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa ssp. interior) Canada moonseed (Menispermum canadense) Canadian horseweed (Conyza canadensis) candle anemone (Anemone cylindrica) common agrimony (Agrimonia gryposepala) common burdock (Arctium minus) common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) common mullein (Verbascum thapsus ssp. thapsus) common plantain (Plantago major) common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) common St. Johnswort (Hypericum perforatum) crown vetch (Securigera varia) cylindric blazing star (Liatris cylindracea) eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana) flowering spurge (Euphorbia corollata) grooved yellow flax (Linum sulcatum var. sulcatum) harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) hoary vervain (Verbena stricta) Indian hemp (Apocynum cannabinum) June grass (Koeleria macrantha) leadplant (Amorpha canescens) Missouri gooseberry (Ribes missouriense) northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) paper birch (Betula papyrifera var. papyrifera) pointed-leaved tick-trefoil (Desmodium glutinosum) prairie coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata) prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) prairie milkweed (Asclepias hirtella) prairie sagewort (Artemisia frigida) purple prairie clover (Dalea purpurea var. purpurea) quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota ssp. carota) red clover (Trifolium pratense) rough false pennyroyal (Hedeoma hispida) scouring rush horsetail (Equisetum hyemale var. affine) stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis) tall cinquefoil (Drymocallis arguta) Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum) western poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii) western ragweed (Ambrosia psilostachya) white oak (Quercus alba) white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima var. altissima) wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea) yellow goat’s beard (Tragopogon dubius)

Reptiles	One reptile species with protected status in Minnesota is found here: Special concern – Blue racer (Coluber constrictor) Blue racer, milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum), and eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) live among the outcrops on this site.

Visits	8/2/2008

Spring Creek Prairie SNA

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