Roscoe Prairie
Scientific and Natural Area

Roscoe Prairie SNA
       
County

Stearns

  Stearns County
GPS

N45 25.165
W94 40.883

 
Size

57 acres

 
Habitat

Blacksoil prairie, wet swales

Hiking Trails

None


Links

Minnesota DNR

The Nature Conservancy


Comments

This SNA is a Nature Conservancy preserve.


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  Roscoe Prairie SNA            
  Photo by Ed Oliveras            
               

Insects

 

 
 

monarch (Danaus plexippus)

monarch
     

Plants

Two plant species with protected status in Minnesota are found here:

Special concern – Hill’s thistle (Cirsium hillii), small white lady’s slipper (Cypripedium candidum)

Other plants that can be found on this site, along with those listed below, include American pasqueflower (Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida), prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis), prairie smoke (Geum triflorum var. triflorum), Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum), and palespike lobelia (Lobelia spicata var. spicata).

Minnesota DNR Plant List

 
 

big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)

black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

blue vervain (Verbena hastata)

bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii var. andrewsii)

Canada wildrye (Elymus canadensis)

common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale)

common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis)

common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

common plantain (Plantago major)

common sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)

dotted blazing star (Liatris punctata)

downy gentian (Gentiana puberulenta)

great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

Indian hemp (Apocynum cannabinum)

Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans)

leadplant (Amorpha canescens)

narrow-leaved purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia var. angustifolia)

New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)

prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya var. pycnostachya)

prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata)

prairie rose (Rosa arkansana)

purple prairie clover (Dalea purpurea var. purpurea)

quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

red clover (Trifolium pratense)

rough blazing star (Liatris aspera)

scouring rush horsetail (Equisetum hyemale var. affine)

showy goldenrod (Solidago speciosa)

smooth scouring rush (Equisetum laevigatum)

stiff goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum)

Virginia mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum)

white sage (Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana)

white sweet clover (Melilotus albus)

wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

black-eyed susan

 

 

 

 

 

bottle gentian

 

 

 

 

 

downy gentian

 

 

 

 

 

New England aster

 

 

 

 

 

prairie rose

 

 

 

 

 

showy goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

stiff goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

wild bergamot

 

 

     
               

 

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