Pin Oak (Quercus palustris)
Pin oak, a tree that can reach 30m in height, is a monoecious tree. Its male catkins are hairy and 5-10cm, female flowers have wooly hairs and red stigmas. Its acorns are 1-2.5cm wide. The acorn cap is saucer-shaped with very small scales that are covered with tiny hairs, it covers 1/4-1/3 of the nut, which is 10-14mm wide.
Mullein Foxglove (Dasistoma macrophyllum) - Wisconsin
Its flowers are sessile (or nearly so), yellow with five flaring petals shorter than the tube, and densely hairy inside. Inflorescence interrupted by leafy spikes with flowers from leaf axils lobes almost equal, widely spreading, tube longer than lobes, 4 stamens. Fruits are roundish capsules, seeds are papery.
Grassleaf Rush (Juncus marginatus) - Wisconsin
Fruits are incompletely 3-locular, the partitions not meeting in the center, somewhat turgid-inflated, 1.8-2.9mm long and nearly as thick. Principle blades are flat to involute, 1-3mm wide, with 2-3 prominent veins, lacking hard cross-partitions. Leaf sheaths have small, rounded, thin-dry, ear-shaped appendages.
John Annin, Black Oak Lake Association Laura Felda-Marquardt, UWEX – Lakes Partnership Ken Felsecker, Watersmeet Lake & Wisconsin River Association Patrick Goggin, Vilas County Conservationist Marty Ketterer, Chairman, Cloverland Town Lakes Committee James Lynn, Cloverland Town Lakes Committee
Maryland Senna (Senna marilandica) - Wisconsin
It can be distinguished from the more common S herbecarpa by its short-cylindric or rounded or dome-shaped petiolar glands (not oval or club-shaped), ovary appressed-hairy (not densely villous), joints of the pods (and seeds) about twice as wide as long (not equally wide as long), and somewhat fewer leaflets per leaf (4-8 pairs vs 6-10 pairs).
Oak Opening - Wisconsin
Oak openings tend to be dominated by members of the white oak group, especially bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa), sometimes white oak (Q. alba), and locally in southwestern Wisconsin, chinquapin oak (Q. muhlenbergii). Black oak (Q. velutina) and shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) may also be present. Canopy closure can vary widely.
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Watershed Detail - North Branch and Mainstem Embarrass Rive
There are two industrial point source dischargers and three municipal point source dischargers in the North Branch and Mainstem Embarrass River Watershed: Village of Bear Creek, Village of Bowler, Embarrass/Cloverleaf Lakes Sanitary District No. 1, Flanagan Brothers, Inc., and the Oak Grove Cheese Factory. Date 1996
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Wisconsin's rare plants. Fassett's locoweed (Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea), photo by Thomas Meyer, Wisconsin DNR.