Erie Sand Barrens
State Nature Preserve,
Ohio (Swing State!)
Edward M. Barrows
Laboratory of Entomology & Biodiversity
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
September 2004
ESBNP is in northern Ohio, east of Toledo.
Out in the boonies. The gate.
Aesculus glabra, octandra, or a hybrid
July 2003
Aesculus glabra, octandra, or a hybrid
July 2003
Entering the Preserve
July 2003
Entering the Preserve
July 2003
Entering the Preserve
July 2003
Farmland surrounds the Preserve.
June 2004
Farmland surrounds the Preserve.
June 2004
Farmland surrounds the Preserve.
July 2003
Farmland surrounds the Preserve.
July 2003
Farmland surrounds the Preserve.
June 2004
Farmland surrounds the Preserve.
species?
June 2004
Farmland surrounds the Preserve.
June 2004
Farmland surrounds the Preserve.
June 2004
Silene cuculabus (Bladder Campion), European alien
June 2004
History
circa 13,000 bp
Lake Warren (5th ancestral lake of Lake Erie)
produced a
shore.
ice sheet
cool weather
spruce forest
Whisperwood.net
History
www.anselm.edu
later
Warmer weather, deciduous forest
History
circa 4,000 bp
Warm, dry weather
(xerothermic period)
Much tall-grass
prairie grew.
Trish Murphy
History
Trish Murphy
later
Cool weather
Deciduous forest returned.
Prairie remnants remained.
History
1600s Ohio was about 4% prairie (now
almost no prairie).
early 1900s E. L. Moseley (Ohio botanist)
studied ESBSNP (= part of
old Oxford Prairie).
1980s TNC bought 32 A.
TNC transferred the land to the
Ohio Division of Natural Areas
and Preserves.
History
My short peeks of the Preserve
11 July 2003. I visited for the first time.
25 June 2004. I visited for the second time.
Habitats of Erie Sand Barrens Nature Preserve
1. High, dry ridges
2. Wet depressions
High, dry ridges
High, dry ridges
Plant Quiz!
High, dry ridges
Plant Quiz ?
High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
Rhus glabra (Smooth Sumac)
High, dry ridges
?
High, dry ridges
Rhus typhina (Staghorn Sumac)
High, dry ridges
June 2004
High, dry ridges
June 2004
High, dry ridges
?
High, dry ridges
Verbascum thapsus (Great Mullein), alien!
July 2003
High, dry ridges
Verbascum thapsus (Great Mullein), alien!
High, dry ridges
?
High, dry ridges
Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed Susan)
July 2003
High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
Rosa sp. (rose)
June 2004
High, dry ridges
Rosa sp. (rose)
High, dry ridges
?
High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
Rosa sp. 2 (rose)
July 2003
High, dry ridges
?
High, dry ridges
Hypericum perfoliatum (Common St. John’s-wort), alien!
July 2003
High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
Achillea millifolia (Yarrow), alien!
July 2003
High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
Asclepias hirtella (Prairie Milkweed)
July 2003
High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
Oxalis europea (European Yellow Wood Sorrel), native?
July 2003
High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
Calestegia sepium (Field Bindweed), native?
July 2003
High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
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High, dry ridges
Dianthus armeria (Oeillet arméria, Depford Pink), alien!
June 2004
Wet depressions
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Carex? (sedge?) June 2004
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Hieracium? (Hawkweed?) June 2004
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Viola sp. (violet) June 2004
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Tradescantia sp. (spiderwort, probably T. ohioensis)
June 2004
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Salix interior (Sandbar Willow) June 2004
High, dry ridges
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Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Antennaria, Potentilla, moss, etc. July 2003
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Lobelia? June 2004
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Chamaecrista fasiculata (Partridge Pea) June 2004
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Oenothera perennis (one of several species of Sundrops) July 2003
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Pycnanthemum sp. (mountain mint) July 2003
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Hypericum gymnanthum (Least St. John’s-wort)
only location in Ohio! June 2004
Wet depressions
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Xyris torta? (Twisted Yellow-eyed Grass) June 2004
Wet depressions
Wet depressions
Antennaria, etc. June 2004
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
Linum intercursum? (flax) July 2003
Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
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Wet depressions
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finis
Happy Late Summer!