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Field Station Bulletins

1985

Cedarburg Bog

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A Guide To The Natural History Of The Cedarburg Bog: Part 1, James A. Reinartz Oct 1985

A Guide To The Natural History Of The Cedarburg Bog: Part 1, James A. Reinartz

Field Station Bulletins

The boardwalk that extends to the center of the Cedarburg Bog is the UWM Field Station's most heavily used teaching facility. Research is also conducted in the Bog, which holds an understandable fascination for researchers and students of natural history because of its size, complexity, diversity and geographical isolation from similar communities. Because of the increasing research and teaching use of the Bog, it has become essential that some of what is known about the natural history of the Bog be assembled and summarized in an easily accessible introduction and guide. The guide contains too much material to fit into …


Labrador Tea (Ledum Groelandicum) In The Cedarburg Bog, James A. Reinartz Apr 1985

Labrador Tea (Ledum Groelandicum) In The Cedarburg Bog, James A. Reinartz

Field Station Bulletins

The Labrador tea population in the Cedarburg Bog is a southern outlyer from its more northerly range and is disjunct by at least 40 miles from the nearest population. The discovery of Labrador tea in the Bog raises to 11 the number of vascular plants that reach their absolute southernmost Wisconsin boundaries in the Cedarburg Bog (5 dicots, 5 monocots, 1 gymnosperm). It raises the number of vascular plants at, or near, the southern edge of their range in the Cedarburg Bog to at least 35.