Minnesota Seasons - Prairie Creek Woods SNA


Prairie Creek Woods SNA

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			Rice County




Size	93 acres

Maps	Map with GPS coordinates

Parking	N44 21.773, W93 5.913

Hiking Trails

Hunting	Deer only, by permit. Hunts are associated with special hunts in state Parks. See Hunting and Trapping Regulations (MN DNR) for details.

Ecological Classification	Province	Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province
	Section	Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal
	Subsection(s)	Oak Savanna
	Land Type Association(s)	Hayfield Till Plain

Native Plant Communities¹	Elm - Ash - Basswood Terrace Forest Sedge Meadow Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest

Ownership	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Links	Minnesota DNR

Comments	This SNA lies within Nerstrand Big Woods State Park.

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Parking

Deer exclusion fence



Birds

	American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)

Fungi

	Black Knot (Apiosporina morbosa)

Insects and Arachnids

	multicolored Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis f. succinea)

Mammals

	eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Plants	One plant species with protected status in Minnesota is found here: Endangered – Minnesota dwarf trout lily (Erythronium propullans) Minnesota DNR Plant List Plants frequently found in: Elm - Ash - Basswood Terrace Forest FFs59c Sedge Meadow WMn82b Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest MHs39a

	American basswood (Tilia americana) American cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum) American elm (Ulmus americana) black ash (Fraxinus nigra) black cherry (Prunus serotina var. serotina) 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) Canada anemone (Anemone canadensis) Canada moonseed (Menispermum canadense) Canadian woodnettle (Laportea canadensis) chokecherry (Prunus virginiana var. virginiana) cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum) cleavers (Galium aparine) common blue violet (Viola sororia) common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale) common false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum racemosum var. racemosum) common strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) dotted hawthorn (Crataegus punctata) early meadow rue (Thalictrum dioicum) eastern false rue anemone (Enemion biternatum) field horsetail (Equisetum arvense) fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum) garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) 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) Minnesota dwarf trout lily (Erythronium propullans) northern hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) northern lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum) northern prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum) northern red oak (Quercus rubra) thyme-leaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia) quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa var. racemosa) red maple (Acer rubrum var. rubrum) rock elm (Ulmus thomasii) round-leaved dogwood (Cornus rugosa) sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis) sharp-lobed hepatica (Anemone acutiloba) smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) starry sedge (Carex rosea) sugar maple (Acer saccharum ssp. saccharum) upright carrionflower (Smilax ecirrhata) Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum) white trout lily (Erythronium albidum) wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii) wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) wild ginger (Asarum canadense) wild grape (Vitis riparia) wild yam (Dioscorea villosa) winter cress (Barbarea vulgaris) woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea)

Visits	6/1/2011