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Whitewater State Park |
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| Size | 2,745 acres |
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| Park Office | N44 3.745, W92 2.677 |
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| Hiking Trails | 10 miles |
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| Hunting | No hunting. |
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| Ecological Classification | Province |
Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province |
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Paleozoic Plateau |
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The Blufflands |
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Land Type Association(s) |
Elba Slopes Lewiston Plain |
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| Native Plant Communities1 | Algific Talus: Dolomite Subtype Dry Bedrock Bluff Prairie (Southern) Dry Limestone - Dolomite Cliff (Southern) Elm - Basswood - Black Ash - (Blue Beech) Forest Elm - Basswood - Black Ash - (Hackberry) Forest Oak - Shagbark Hickory Woodland Red Oak - Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest Red Oak - White Oak Forest Red Oak - White Oak - (Sugar Maple) Forest Southern Dry Cliff Southern Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Southern Wet-Mesic Hardwood Forest Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Bitternut Hickory) Forest Sugar Maple - Basswood - Red Oak - (Blue Beech) Forest White Pine - Oak - Sugar Maple Forest |
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| Ownership | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources |
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American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) |
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American basswood (Tilia americana) American cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum) American elm (Ulmus americana) common burdock (Arctium minus) common motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) common mullein (Verbascum thapsus) downy yellow violet (Viola pubescens var. pubescens) drooping trillium (Trillium flexipes) Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana) eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) greater yellow lady’s slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens) Greek valerian (Polemonium reptans var. reptans) ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) May-apple (Podophyllum peltatum) northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) paper birch (Betula papyrifera var. papyrifera) prairie violet (Viola pedatifida) Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota ssp. carota) rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides) scouring rush horsetail (Equisetum hyemale var. affine) sharp-lobed hepatica (Anemone acutiloba) white trout lily (Erythronium albidum) wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii) wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) |
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| Visits | 5/13/2001 3/29/2009 5/17/2011 |
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