Blue Devil Valley SNA

   

Blue Devil Valley SNA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Area and County

 

 

 

Yellow Medicine County

 

 

 

 

 


Size

30 acres

Printable map
 
Maps

Map with GPS coordinates

 
Parking

N44 48.097, W95 32.994

 
Hiking Trails

 

 
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)

Milan Alluvial Plain

 
Native Plant Communities1

Crystalline Bedrock Outcrop (Prairie): Minnesota River Subtype


Ownership

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

 
Links

Minnesota DNR


Comments

 


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Amphibians

 

 
 

boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata)

 


Birds

Minnesota DNR Bird checkist

 
 

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)

Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)

Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)

American Robin

 

 

 

 

Black-capped Chickadee

 

 

 

 

Brown-headed Cowbird

 

 

 


Fungi

 

 
 

Artist’s Conk (Ganoderma applanatum)

Black Knot (Apiosporina morbosa)

Crown Rust (Puccinia coronata)

False Tinder Fungus (Phellinus igniarius)

Artist’s Conk

 


Insects and Arachnids

 

 
 

American lady (Vanessa virginiensis)

common buckeye (Junonia coenia)

eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)

eriophid mite (Eriophyes cerasicrumena)

monarch (Danaus plexippus)

mourning cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)

orange sulphur (Colias eurytheme)

question mark (Polygonia interrogationis)

red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

spring field cricket (Gryllus veletis)

American lady

 

 

 

 

orange sulphur

 

 

 

 

question mark

 


Plants

Minnesota DNR Plant List


Plants frequently found in:

Crystalline Bedrock Outcrop (Prairie): Minnesota River Subtype ROs12a1

 
 

alfalfa (Medicago sativa ssp. sativa)

American basswood (Tilia americana)

American elm (Ulmus americana)

American vetch (Vicia americana ssp. americana)

bastard toadflax (Comandra umbellata ssp. umbellata)

black-seeded plantain (Plantago rugelii var. rugelii)

boxelder (Acer negundo var. negundo)

bracted spiderwort (Tradescantia bracteata)

bristly buttercup (Ranunculus hispidus var. caricetorum)

brittle pricklypear (Opuntia fragilis)

bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa)

Canada anemone (Anemone canadensis)

Canadian woodnettle (Laportea canadensis)

catnip (Nepeta cataria)

chokecherry (Prunus virginiana var. virginiana)

cleavers (Galium aparine)

common blue violet (Viola sororia)

common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)

common burdock (Arctium minus)

common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale)

common lamb’s-quarters (Chenopodium album)

common motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)

common mullein (Verbascum thapsus)

common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia)

common yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

dame’s rocket (Hesperis matronalis)

early meadow rue (Thalictrum dioicum)

eastern pricklypear (Opuntia humifusa)

eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana)

falsegold groundsel (Packera pseudaurea var. semicordata)

field horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

field pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)

field sagewort (Artemisia campestris ssp. caudata)

green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)

grimmia dry rock moss (Grimmia laevigata)

ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)

honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)

kidney-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus)

large yellow water crowfoot (Ranunculus flabellaris)

leadplant (Amorpha canescens)

Missouri gooseberry (Ribes missouriense)

Morrow’s honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii)

northern bedstraw (Galium boreale)

northern hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)

northern prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum)

plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera)

prairie alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii)

prairie blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium campestre)

prairie sagewort (Artemisia frigida)

prairie violet (Viola pedatifida)

quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa var. racemosa)

Robin's plantain (Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus)

rusty woodsia (Woodsia ilvensis)

silver maple (Acer saccharinum)

silvery cinquefoil (Potentilla argentea)

smooth Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum)

smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)

spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)

spring cress (Cardamine bulbosa)

starry false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum stellatum)

stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida)

stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis)

sugar maple (Acer saccharum ssp. saccharum)

tall cinquefoil (Drymocallis arguta)

Tartarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)

upright carrionflower (Smilax ecirrhata)

violet wood sorrel (Oxalis violacea)

Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum)

western ragweed (Ambrosia psilostachya)

white clover (Trifolium repens)

wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

wild grape (Vitis riparia)

wild oats (Uvularia sessilifolia)

woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea)

woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca ssp. americana)

yellow goat’s beard (Tragopogon dubius)

American elm

 

 

 

 

bracted spiderwort

 

 

 

 

brittle pricklypear

 

 

 

 

bur oak (var. macrocarpa)

 

 

 

 

chokecherry

 

 

 

 

common blue violet

 

 

 

 

common mullein

 

 

 

 

common yarrow

 

 

 

 

field pussytoes

 

 

 

 

leadplant

 

 

 

 

Missouri gooseberry

 

 

 

 

northern bedstraw

 

 

 

 

northern prickly ash

 

 

 

 

red elderberry

 

 

 

 

silvery cinquefoil

 

 

 

 

spreading dogbane

 

 

 

 

tall cinquefoil

 

 

 

 

Tartarian honeysuckle

 

 

 

 

Virginia waterleaf

 

 

 

 

wild columbine


Reptiles

One reptile species with protected status in Minnesota is found here:

Special concern – American five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus)

 
 

plains garter snake (Thamnophis radix)

 


Visits

9/6/2009

5/12/2012

   
               

 

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