Jacobson Park Plants

Jacobson Campsite 4

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.