Abstract

This study was initiated in August, 1959, on Crex Meadows Wildlife Area in the northwestern Wisconsin sand country. The vegetation consists of tall grass, brush prairie savanna-a grassland of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi), Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), Carex sp., little bluestem (Andropogon scoparius), Junegrass (Koeleria cristata), and bluejoint (Calamagrostis canadensis), with an overstory of scattered Hill's oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis), jack pine (Pinus banksiana), hazel (Corylus americana), pussy willow (Salix discolor), lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium), and inland ceanothus (Ceanothus ovatus). Common forbs include azure aster (Aster azureus), stiff sunflower (Helianthus rigidus), veiny peavine (Lathyrus venosus), and sagewort (Artemisia ludoviciana).

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