Jacobson Park Plants

Some common plants found at the Jacobson Campground in the spring are listed below (all plant photos are from the collection compiled by John Almendinger, MN DNR Ecological Services)

Trees – trembling aspen, red maple, paper birch and black ash.  Planted red pine is also present on the campsite.

Shrubs – beaked hazelnut, bush honeysuckle, prickly gooseberry, dwarf raspberry

Herbaceous plants - Large leaved aster, Canada mayflower, wood anemone, wild columbine, bracken fern, sessile-leaved bellwort, wild sarsaparilla, pale-vetchling, wild strawberry, and common buttercup. Other plants: meadow horsetail

The upland area of the Jacobson campground would be considered as Northern Wet-Mesic Boreal Hardwood-Conifer forest (MHn44).  The habitat descriptions, vegetation structure & composition, landscape setting, natural history, and similar plant communities for this native plant community, MHn44, may be found at the MN DNR ecology website:

"http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/natural_resources/npc/mesic_hardwood/mhn44.pdf"

A few of the plants found in wetter, richer sites along the river include: blue cohosh, sweet cicely, water horsetail, bloodroot and early meadow rue.

Trembling aspen    (Populus tremuloids)	Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
Tree trunk of paper birch (B. papyrifera)	Paper birch  leaves  (Betula  papyrifera)
Black Ash leaves (Fraxinus nigra)	Beaked Hazelnut (Corylus cornuta)
Bush Honeysuckle  (Diervella lonicera)	Prickly Gooseberry   (Ribes cynosbati)
Dwarf Raspberry (Rubus pubescens)	Large Leaf Aster
Canada Mayflower	Wood Anemone
Wild Columbine	Bracken Fern
Sessile-leaved Bellwort	Wild Sarsaparilla
Pale Vetchling	Wild Strawberry
Common Buttercup	Meadow Horsetail