Weaver Dunes Preserve
About • Location • Activities • Ecology
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819 acres |
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N44 15.486, W91 55.963 |
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No maintained trails |
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Deer only. See Hunting and Trapping Regulations (MN DNR) for details. |
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Ecological Classification |
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| Ecological Province | Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province |
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| Ecological Section | Paleozoic Plateau |
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| Ecological Subsection | The Blufflands |
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| Land Type Association | Mississippi River Valley |
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Native Plant Communities* |
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Dry Barrens Prairie (Southern) Dry Barrens Oak Savanna (Southern): Oak Subtype Silver Maple - (Virginia Creeper) Floodplain Forest |
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Walking back to entrance of TNC Cox Unit |
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Landscape at TNC Cox Unit with Clasping milkweed Asclepias amplexicaulis at lower center |
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Landscape TNC Cox Unit Clasping milkweed Asclepias amplexicaulis |
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The two signs are framing the windmill by the parking area on the westside of Kellogg Weaver Dunes South Unit, to give you a sense of perspective! |
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Birds |
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| Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus) |  |
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black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima) butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa ssp. interior) clasping milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis) common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) goat’s rue (Tephrosia virginiana) hairy puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense var. croceum) hoary frostweed (Crocanthemum bicknellii) hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens) long-leaved groundcherry (Physalis longifolia) Muhlenberg’s sedge (Carex muehlenbergii var. muehlenbergii) partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata) prairie blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium campestre) prairie larkspur (Delphinium carolinianum ssp. virescens) rough bentgrass (Agrostis scabra) |
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Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas and Minnesota Biological Survey Vegetation Releves Plant List |
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Plants frequently found in: Dry Barrens Prairie (Southern) UPs13a |
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Created: 8/30/2022
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