Clear Lake SNA

   

Clear Lake SNA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Area and County

 

 

 

Sherburne County

 

 

 

 

 


Size

78 acres

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Maps

MinnesotaSeasons map with GPS coordinates

 
Parking

N45 25.638 W94 2.563

 
Hiking Trails

 

 

 

 

 


Ecological Classification

Province

Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province

Ecological Classification

Section

Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal

Subsection(s)

Anoka Sand Plain

Land Type Association(s)

Mississippi Sand Plain

 
Native Plant Communities1

Sedge Meadow

Southern Dry-Mesic Oak (Maple) Woodland

Southern Terrace Forest


Ownership

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

 
Links

Minnesota DNR


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Birds

Minnesota DNR Bird checkist

 
 

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)

White-breasted Nuthatch

 

 


Insects and Arachnids  
 
 

chalk-fronted corporal (Ladona julia)

common whitetail (Libellula lydia)

goldenrod spider (Misumena vatia)

twelve-spotted skimmer (Libellula pulchella)

widow skimmer (Libellula luctuosa)

common whitetail

 

 


Mammals

 

 
 

eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus)

red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)

whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

eastern chipmunk

Plants

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

Special concern – Hill’s thistle (Cirsium pumilum var. hillii)

Minnesota DNR Plant List


Plants frequently found in:

Sedge Meadow WMn82b

Southern Dry-Mesic Oak (Maple) Woodland FDs37

Southern Terrace Forest FFs59

 
 

American basswood (Tilia americana)

boxelder (Acer negundo)

bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa)

butternut (Juglans cinerea)

Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)

Canada moonseed (Menispermum canadense)

Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense)

Canadian horseweed (Conyza canadensis)

Canadian woodnettle (Laportea canadensis)

catnip (Nepeta cataria)

cleavers (Galium aparine)

common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

common motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)

common mullein (Verbascum thapsus)

common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia)

common strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)

common yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

dame’s rocket (Hesperis matronalis)

eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana)

fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum)

green carpetweed (Mollugo verticillata)

ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)

hoary alyssum (Berteroa incana)

Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

Missouri gooseberry (Ribes missouriense)

northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)

rough-fruited cinquefoil (Potentilla recta)

smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)

stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis)

Tartarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)

Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum)

western poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)

white campion (Silene latifolia ssp. alba)

white clover (Trifolium repens)

wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

wild grape (Vitis riparia)

woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea)

woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca ssp. americana)

yellow goat’s beard (Tragopogon dubius)

yellow wood sorrel (Oxalis stricta)

bur oak (var. macrocarpa)

 

 

 

 

Canada moonseed

 

 

 

 

catnip

 

 

 

 

common milkweed

 

 

 

 

common mullein

 

 

 

 

dame’s rocket

 

 

 

 

rough-fruited cinquefoil

 

 

 

 

Virginia waterleaf

 

 

 

 

western poison ivy

 

 

 

 

wild geranium

 

 

 

 

yellow wood sorrel

 


Visits

6/8/2006

   
               

 

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