Cannon Wilderness Woods

   

Cannon Wilderness Woods

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Area and County

 

 

 

Rice County

 

 

 

 

 


Size

20 acres

Printable map
 
Maps

Map with GPS coordinates

 
Parking

N44 22.477 W93 12.624

Park on the mowed grass next to the barn.

 
Hiking Trails

 

 
Hunting

No hunting.


Ecological Classification

Province

Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province

Ecological Classification

Section

Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal

Subsection(s)

Oak Savanna

Land Type Association(s)

Blooming Prairie Till Plain

 
Native Plant Communities1

Southern Terrace Forest

Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods)


Ownership

The Nature Conservancy

 
Links

 


Comments

This preserve wraps around an agricultural field. It is bordered on the north and west by Cannon Wilderness County Park.


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Birds

 

 
 

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)

Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus)

Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)

Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)

American Goldfinch

 

 

 

 

Great Gray Owl


Insects and Arachnids

 

 
 

eastern boxelder bug (Leptocoris trivittatus)

eriophid mite (Eriophyes cerasicrumena)

goldenrod gall fly (Eurosta solidaginis)

monarch (Danaus plexippus)

multicolored Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis f. succinea)

northern crescent (Phyciodes cocyta selenis)

syrphid fly (Toxomerus geminatus)

northern crescent

 

 

 

 

syrphid fly (Toxomerous geminatus)

 


Mammals

 

 
 

striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis)

whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

whitetail deer


Plants

Plants frequently found in:

Southern Terrace Forest FFs59

Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods) MHs39c

 
 

American basswood (Tilia americana)

American elm (Ulmus americana)

black ash (Fraxinus nigra)

black cherry (Prunus serotina var. serotina)

black maple (Acer saccharum ssp. nigrum)

black walnut (Juglans nigra)

black-seeded plantain (Plantago rugelii var. rugelii)

bland sweet cicely (Osmorhiza claytonii)

bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

boxelder (Acer negundo var. negundo)

bristly greenbrier (Smilax tamnoides)

bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa)

butternut (Juglans cinerea)

Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)

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 false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum racemosum var. racemosum)

common mullein (Verbascum thapsus)

common strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)

early figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata)

early meadow rue (Thalictrum dioicum)

eastern false rue anemone (Enemion biternatum)

eastern woodland sedge (Carex blanda)

field horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum)

golden alexanders (Zizia aurea)

grayleaf red raspberry (Rubus idaeus ssp. strigosus)

green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)

ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)

ironwood (Ostrya virginiana var. virginiana)

Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

kidney-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus)

large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)

meadow salsify (Tragopogon pratensis)

northern bedstraw (Galium boreale)

northern hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)

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

northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum)

northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)

northern shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)

northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis)

ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris var. pensylvanica)

pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia)

red clover (Trifolium pratense)

red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa var. racemosa)

round-leaved dogwood (Cornus rugosa)

sharp-lobed hepatica (Anemone acutiloba)

silver maple (Acer saccharinum)

slippery elm (Ulmus rubra)

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

smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)

spotted lady’s thumb (Persicaria maculosa)

stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis)

sugar maple (Acer saccharum ssp. saccharum)

thyme-leaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)

Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum)

virgin’s bower (Clematis virginiana)

white campion (Silene latifolia ssp. alba)

white clover (Trifolium repens)

white oak (Quercus alba)

white rattlesnake root (Nabalus albus)

white spruce (Picea glauca)

white trout lily (Erythronium albidum)

white-flowered leaf-cup (Polymnia canadensis)

wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii)

wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

wild ginger (Asarum canadense)

wild grape (Vitis riparia)

wild mint (Mentha arvensis)

wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)

winter cress (Barbarea vulgaris)

woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea)

American basswood

 

 

 

 

black cherry

 

 

 

 

bur oak (var. macrocarpa)

 

 

 

 

chokecherry

 

 

 

 

common blue violet

 

 

 

 

common dandelion

 

 

 

 

common false Solomon’s seal

 

 

 

 

common strawberry

 

 

 

 

eastern false rue anemone

 

 

 

 

large-flowered bellwort

 

 

 

 

northern bedstraw

 

 

 

 

sharp-lobed hepatica

 

 

 

 

smooth sumac

 

 

 

 

Virginia waterleaf

 

 

 

 

white rattlesnake root

 

 

 

 

virgin’s bower

 

 

 

 

wild columbine

 

 

 

 

wild geranium

 

 

 

 

wild ginger

 

 

 

 

winter cress

 

 

 

 


Visits

6/1/2011

   
 

 

         

 

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