Rosa blanda Aiton

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Rosa blanda Ait.
Common in deep loose loamy sand near and at river.
WISCONSIN
IOWA COUNTY
Shrubs, mostly 7.3
10.1 dm tall; mat
hypanthia red (few
plants) to usually
orange-red.
Extensive lowland
prairie on huge
outwash sand terrace
along Wisconsin River
2 mi. E of AVOCA. Dry-
mesic segments dominated
by Andropogon scoparius,
Sporobolus heterolepis,
& Koeleria macrantha (on
low swells) grading to wet segments dominated
by Andropogon gerardii. Panicum virgatum. &
Spartina pectinata (in shallow swales), the Rosa
in Dry-mesic prairie, with Elymus virginicus. E.
canadensis, Prunus pumila. Solidago canadensis.
S. gigantea, Artemisia ludoviciana. Aster eric.
N end of Hay Lane Rd. at Wisconsin River in AVOCA
PRAIRIE STATE NATURAL AREA (T8N, R2E, Sec. 5 SW%) .
T. S. Cochrane & H. H. Iltis, with Sept. 10, 1992
D. Fields&W. Middleton	No. 12,226
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