Black Ash - (Red Maple) Seepage Swamp (Wfs57a) Black Ash - Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Blue Beech) Seepage Swamp (Wfs57a)

Species Frequently Found in Native Plant Communities

Southern Wet Ash Swamp (WFs57)

Types in Class: Black Ash - (Red Maple) Seepage Swamp (WFs57a) Black Ash - Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Blue Beech) Seepage Swamp (WFs57a)

Scientific Name Column1 Common Name Rare Status Acer saccharum Sugar maple Alnus incana ssp. rugosa Speckled alder Amphicarpaea bracteata Hog peanut Arisaema triphyllum Jack-in-the-pulpit Asarum canadense Wild ginger Aster prenanthoides Crooked aster Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum Lady fern Betula alleghaniensis Yellow birch Betula papyrifera Paper birch Caltha palustris Common marsh marigold Carex blanda Charming sedge Carex bromoides Brome-like sedge Carex gracillima Graceful sedge Carex interior Interior sedge Carex lacustris Lake sedge Carex laevivaginata Smooth-sheathed sedge Threatened Carex radiata Eastern star sedge Carex rosea Starry sedge Carex stipata Awl-fruited sedge Carpinus caroliniana var. virginiana Blue beech Circaea lutetiana var. canadensis Common enchanter's nightshade Cornus alternifolia Pagoda dogwood Cryptotaenia canadensis Honewort Cystopteris bulbifera Bulblet fern Equisetum arvense Field horsetail Equisetum hyemale var. affine Tall scouring rush Floerkea proserpinacoides False mermaid Threatened Fraxinus nigra Black ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica var. pennsylvanica Green ash Galium aparine Cleavers Galium triflorum Sweet-scented bedstraw Geranium maculatum Wild geranium Geum canadense White avens Glyceria striata Fowl manna grass Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum Virginia waterleaf Impatiens spp. touch-me-not Laportea canadensis Wood nettle Lilium michiganense Michigan lily Maianthemum canadense Canada mayflower Matteuccia struthiopteris var. pensylvanica Ostrich fern Mitella diphylla Two-leaved miterwort

Southern Wet Ash Swamp (WFs57)

Onoclea sensibilis Sensitive fern Osmorhiza claytonii Clayton's sweet cicely Parthenocissus spp. Virginia creeper Pilea spp. clearweed Prunus virginiana Chokecherry Quercus macrocarpa Bur oak Quercus rubra Northern red oak Ranunculus hispidus Hispid buttercup Ranunculus recurvatus var. recurvatus Hooked crowfoot Ribes americanum Wild black currant Ribes cynosbati Prickly gooseberry Ribes missouriense Missouri gooseberry Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum Small-leaved water cress Rubus pubescens Dwarf raspberry Rudbeckia laciniata var. laciniata Tall coneflower Solidago flexicaulis Zigzag goldenrod Symplocarpus foetidus Skunk cabbage Thalictrum dioicum Early meadow-rue Tilia americana Basswood Toxicodendron rydbergii Western poison ivy Ulmus americana American elm Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis Stinging nettle Viburnum lentago Nannyberry

Source: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (2005). Field Guide to the Native Plant Communities of Minnesota: The Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province. Ecological Land Classification Program, Minnesota County Biological Survey, and Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program. MNDNR St. Paul, MN.

Southern Wet Ash Swamp (WFs57)

Black Ash - (Red Maple) Seepage Swamp (WFs57a) Scientific Name Column1 Common Name Rare Status Acer rubrum Red maple Alnus incana ssp. rugosa Speckled alder Betula alleghaniensis Yellow birch Betula papyrifera Paper birch Carex bromoides Brome-like sedge Carex lacustris Lake sedge Fraxinus nigra Black ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica var. pennsylvanica Green ash Hydrocotyle americana American water pennywort Special Concern Iris versicolor Northern blue flag Lycopus uniflorus Northern bugleweed Maianthemum canadense Canada mayflower Onoclea sensibilis Sensitive fern Poa paludigena Bog bluegrass Threatened Prenanthes alba White rattlesnakeroot Rubus pubescens Dwarf raspberry Scutellaria lateriflora Mad dog skullcap Smilacina stellata var. stellata Starry false Solomon's seal Tilia americana Basswood Uvularia sessilifolia Pale bellwort

Southern Wet Ash Swamp (WFs57)

Black Ash - Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Blue Beech) Seepage Swamp (WFs57a) Scientific Name Column1 Common Name Rare Status Acer saccharum Sugar maple Agrimonia spp. agrimony Aster prenanthoides Crooked aster Betula alleghaniensis Yellow birch Cardamine concatenata Cut-leaved toothwort Carex hirtifolia Hairy-leaved sedge Carex laevivaginata Smooth-sheathed sedge Threatened Carpinus caroliniana var. virginiana Blue beech Cornus alternifolia Pagoda dogwood Cystopteris bulbifera Bulblet fern Elymus hystrix Bottlebrush grass Enemion biternatum False rue anemone Floerkea proserpinacoides False mermaid Threatened Fraxinus nigra Black ash Hydrophyllum appendiculatum Appendaged waterleaf Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum Virginia waterleaf Ranunculus hispidus Hispid buttercup Smilacina racemosa Common false Solomon's seal Tilia americana Basswood Ulmus americana American elm