Minnesota Seasons - Racine Prairie SNA


Racine Prairie SNA

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			Mower County




Size	6 acres

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Parking	N43 48.089 W92 29.373

Hiking Trails	None





Ecological Classification	Province	Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province
	Section	Paleozoic Plateau
	Subsection(s)	Rochester Plateau
	Land Type Association(s)	Stewartville Plain

Native Plant Communities¹	Mesic Prairie (Southern)

Ownership	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Links	Minnesota DNR

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Birds

	American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)

Insects and Arachnids

	flower longhorn beetle (Strangalia luteicornis) monarch (Danaus plexippus)

Plants	One plant species with protected status in Minnesota is found here: Endangered – Wild quinine (Parthenium integrifolium) Western poison ivy appears here both as a creeping ground cover and as a woody shrub up to 4½′ tall. Other plants found on this site, along with those listed below, include prairie smoke (Geum triflorum var. triflorum) and American pasqueflower (Anemone patens var. multifida). Minnesota DNR Plant List Plants frequently found in: Mesic Prairie (Southern) UPs23a

	American cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum) American elderberry (Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis) bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus var. corniculatus) black medick (Medicago lupulina) boxelder (Acer negundo) Canadian horseweed (Conyza canadensis) Canadian tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense) candle anemone (Anemone cylindrica) common burdock (Arctium minus) common cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex) common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale) common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) common mullein (Verbascum thapsus) common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) common strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) common yarrow (Achillea millefolium) compass plant (Silphium laciniatum) Culver’s root (Veronicastrum virginicum) curly dock (Rumex crispus) cut-leaved coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata var. laciniata) Deptford pink (Dianthus armeria) early figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata) field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) field horsetail (Equisetum arvense) flowering spurge (Euphorbia corollata) foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum ssp. jubatum) fringed loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata) giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida var. trifida) gray-headed coneflower (Ratibida pinnata) grayleaf red raspberry (Rubus idaeus ssp. strigosus) green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) heart-leaved four o’clock (Mirabilis nyctaginea) hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium) Indian hemp (Apocynum cannabinum) Michigan lily (Lilium superbum) narrow-leaved cattail (Typha angustifolia) pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica var. pensylvanica) pineapple-weed (Matricaria discoidea) plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera) poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) prairie coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata) prairie rose (Rosa arkansana) quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium var. yuccifolium) red clover (Trifolium pratense) reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) smooth scouring rush (Equisetum laevigatum) smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium) starry campion (Silene stellata) stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis) swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata) tall meadow rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum) tall thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) timothy (Phleum pratense) Virginia mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) western poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii) white avens (Geum canadense var. canadense) white sage (Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana) white wild indigo (Baptisia lactea var. lactea) wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) wild grape (Vitis riparia) wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea) yellow goat’s beard (Tragopogon dubius) yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis)

Visits	4/9/2005 7/13/2009