Click here to view our gallery of the different sedges seen at the Lost Lake Preserve! Then, click on each image to enlarge and discover each plant’s common and scientific name!
How do you distinguish different grass-like plants? Remember the rhyme!
Sedges have edges, rushes are round, grasses have nodes all the way to the ground!
Click here to view our gallery of wildflowers seen at the Lost Lake Preserve–these include terrestrial, wetland, and aquatic flowering plants! Then, click on each image to enlarge and discover each plant’s common and scientific name!
Click here to view our gallery of the trees and shrubs seen at the Lost Lake Preserve! Then, click on each image to enlarge and discover each plant’s common and scientific name!
Interesting changes in the plant community are occurring as a result of increasing areas of deep standing water from beaver dams. The bog birch is dying out where beaver ponds have been developed. In place of the bog birch, vast networks of Common Bladderwort (Ultricularia vulgaris) are thriving.
The name “Common” Bladderwort isn’t a very good descriptor for a plant with highly unique capabilities…
OHA is conducting an inventory of plants both in the wetland and the upland, which helps us to better understand the biological resources present and to monitor changes over time. To date, over 75 plants species have been identified and photographed onsite, with a record of their wetland indicator status and other pertinent information.