Shooting Star Prairie
Scientific and Natural Area

Shooting Star Prairie SNA
       
County

Mower

  Mower County
GPS

N43 32.688
W92 35.058

 
Size

8 acres

 
Habitat

Mesic tallgrass prairie

Hiking Trails

None


Links

Minnesota DNR


Comments

 


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Birds

 

 
 

eastern kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)

mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)

mourning dove
     

Insects

 

 
 

common wood nymph (Cercyonis pegala nephala)

eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)

goldenrod soldier beetle (Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus)

monarch (Danaus plexippus)

painted lady (Vanessa cardui)

eastern tiger swallowtail
     

Plants

Prairie shooting star (Dodecatheon meadia ssp. meadia), a Minnesota endangered species, is being reintroduced into this tiny SNA.

Minnesota DNR Plant List

 
 

big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)

black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis)

black walnut (Juglans nigra)

blue vervain (Verbena hastata)

bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa)

Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis var. canadensis)

Canada lettuce (Lactuca canadensis)

Canada plum (Prunus nigra)

common burdock (Arctium minus)

common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus var. albus)

common yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

curly dock (Rumex crispus ssp. crispus)

common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis)

giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida var. trifida)

Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans)

Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)

northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)

purple prairie clover (Dalea purpurea var. purpurea)

quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium var. yuccifolium)

red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea ssp. sericea)

rough blazing star (Liatris aspera)

smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)

spotted Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum)

spotted touch-me-not (Impatiens capensis)

stiff goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum)

tall blue lettuce (Lactuca biennis)

western bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum)

western poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)

white sage (Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana)

white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima var. altissima)

white sweet clover (Melilotus albus)

wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

wild grape (Vitis riparia)

woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea)

big bluestem

 

 

 

 

 

Canada plum

 

 

 

 

 

giant ragweed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rattlesnake master

 

 

 

 

 

stiff goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

white snakeroot

 

 

 

 

 

wild bergamot

 

     

Visits

8/28/2005

   
               

 

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