Classification

• Province: Laurentian Mixed Forest
  • Section: Northern Superior Uplands
    • Subsection: Border Lakes
• System: Fire Dependent Woodland

Description:

• The Alder/Willow Wetland, about 2.5% of the BWCAW by surface area
• Slow moving subsurface water with dense, nearly impenetrable cover of tall shrubs
• Signature Species
• Speckled Alder, Alnus incana
• Willows, Salix spp.

Indicator
Species:

Trees

• Black Spruce, Picea mariana

Shrubs

• Speckled Alder, Alnus incana
• Labrador Tea, Ledum groenlandicum
• Late Low Blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium

Herbs

• Sedges, Carex ssp

Ground Cover

• Feather Moss,
• Dicranum Moss, Dicranum spp
• Hair Cap Mosses,
• Sphagnum Moss, Sphagnum spp

Landform & Topography:

Soils & Hydrology:

Identification:

• About 4.5% of the BWCAW by surface area
  • Signature Species
  • Arrowhead, Sagittaria spp
  • Blue Flag Iris, Iris versicolor
  • Cattail, Typha spp.
• Sub-types
  • Marsh
  • Muskeg

• Spruce Grouse, Dendragapus canadensis
• Palm Warbler, Dendroica palmarumi
• Le Conte's Sparrow, Ammospiza leconteii

• Moose, Alces alces
• Masked Shrew, Sorex cinereus

Natural
History

• History

Other
Communities:

Last updated on 30 June, 2004