University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS)
v0240553WIS
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Leersia lenticularis Michx.
Poaceae
Cochrane, Theodore S.; Zimmerman, James H.
7141
1975-09-14
1975-09-14
United States, Wisconsin, Columbia, NW corner jct. CTH U and Baraboo River
43.50182678 -89.47682176 +-285m.
T12N R09E sec19 NE4SW4;
Latitude/Longitude was derived from the Township, Range, Section location. This causes an imprecision.
Lining dryish edge of slough. Edges of sloughs in riverbottom floodplain hardwood forest; Ulmus americana-Acer saccharinum-Fraxinus pennsylvanica var. subintegerrima community on circumneutral mineral soil of clay and silt. Additional information for Cochrane et al. 7124-7144; Assoc.: Elymus virginicus, Leersia lenticularis, Carex grayi, C. lupulina, C. lupiformis, C. muskingumensis, C. tribuloides, C. tuckermanii, C. typhina, Polygonum pensylvanicum, P. coccineum var. pratincola, Rumex verticillatus, Penthorum sedoides, Vitis riparia, Sium suave, Lysimachia nummularia, Stachys tenuifolia, Physostegia formosior, Cephalanthus occidentalis, Aster ontarionis, and Boltonia asteroides var. recognita. Sheet 2 of 2. Since this is the only (or possibly one of two) stands of swamp forests remaining along the Baraboo River worthy of mention, and since it contains the easternmost and/or the only inland stations (i.e., non -Wisconsin, non-Mississippi River) stations of several of the species listed above, this stand is certainly worthy of preservation. However, diseased elms and other species have just been cut out, badly degrading it.