1. Erie Sand Barrens State Nature Preserve, Ohio (Swing State!) Edward M. Barrows Laboratory of Entomology & Biodiversity Georgetown University Washington, D.C. September 2004

2. ESBNP is in northern Ohio, east of Toledo.

3. Out in the boonies. The gate.

4. Aesculus glabra, octandra, or a hybrid July 2003

5. Aesculus glabra, octandra, or a hybrid July 2003

6. Entering the Preserve July 2003

8. Entering the Preserve July 2003

9. Entering the Preserve July 2003

10. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

11. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

12. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. July 2003

13. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. July 2003

14. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

15. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. species? June 2004

16. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

17. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

18. Silene cuculabus (Bladder Campion), European alien June 2004

19. History circa 13,000 bp Lake Warren (5th ancestral lake of Lake Erie) produced a shore. ice sheet cool weather spruce forest Whisperwood.net

20. History www.anselm.edu later Warmer weather, deciduous forest

21. History circa 4,000 bp Warm, dry weather (xerothermic period) Much tall-grass prairie grew. Trish Murphy

22. History Trish Murphy later Cool weather Deciduous forest returned. Prairie remnants remained.

23. History 1600s Ohio was about 4% prairie (now almost no prairie). early 1900s E. L. Moseley (Ohio botanist) studied ESBSNP (= part of old Oxford Prairie). 1980s TNC bought 32 A. TNC transferred the land to the Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves.

24. History My short peeks of the Preserve 11 July 2003. I visited for the first time. 25 June 2004. I visited for the second time.

25. Habitats of Erie Sand Barrens Nature Preserve 1. High, dry ridges 2. Wet depressions

26. High, dry ridges

27. Plant Quiz!

28. High, dry ridges Plant Quiz ?

29. High, dry ridges ?

30. Rhus glabra (Smooth Sumac)

31. High, dry ridges ?

32. Rhus typhina (Staghorn Sumac)

33. High, dry ridges June 2004

34. High, dry ridges June 2004

35. High, dry ridges ?

36. Verbascum thapsus (Great Mullein), alien! July 2003

37. High, dry ridges Verbascum thapsus (Great Mullein), alien!

38. High, dry ridges ?

39. Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed Susan) July 2003

40. High, dry ridges ?

41. Rosa sp. (rose) June 2004

42. High, dry ridges Rosa sp. (rose)

43. High, dry ridges ?

44. ?

45. Rosa sp. 2 (rose) July 2003

46. High, dry ridges ?

47. Hypericum perfoliatum (Common St. John’s-wort), alien! July 2003

48. High, dry ridges ?

49. Achillea millifolia (Yarrow), alien! July 2003

50. High, dry ridges ?

51. ?

52. ?

53. Asclepias hirtella (Prairie Milkweed) July 2003

54. High, dry ridges ?

55. Oxalis europea (European Yellow Wood Sorrel), native? July 2003

56. High, dry ridges ?

57. Calestegia sepium (Field Bindweed), native? July 2003

58. High, dry ridges ?

59. ?

60. Dianthus armeria (Oeillet arméria, Depford Pink), alien! June 2004

61. Wet depressions

62. ?

63. ?

64. Carex? (sedge?) June 2004

65. Wet depressions ?

66. Hieracium? (Hawkweed?) June 2004

67. Wet depressions ?

68. Viola sp. (violet) June 2004

69. Wet depressions ?

70. ?

71. ?

72. Tradescantia sp. (spiderwort, probably T. ohioensis) June 2004

73. Wet depressions ?

74. ?

75. ?

76. Salix interior (Sandbar Willow) June 2004

77. High, dry ridges ?

78. Wet depressions ?

79. Antennaria, Potentilla, moss, etc. July 2003

80. Wet depressions ?

81. Lobelia? June 2004

82. Wet depressions ?

83. Chamaecrista fasiculata (Partridge Pea) June 2004

84. Wet depressions ?

85. ?

86. Oenothera perennis (one of several species of Sundrops) July 2003

87. Wet depressions ?

88. Pycnanthemum sp. (mountain mint) July 2003

89. Wet depressions ?

90. Hypericum gymnanthum (Least St. John’s-wort) only location in Ohio! June 2004

91. Wet depressions

92. ?

93. Xyris torta? (Twisted Yellow-eyed Grass) June 2004

94. Wet depressions

95. Antennaria, etc. June 2004

96. Wet depressions ?

97. Linum intercursum? (flax) July 2003

98. Wet depressions ?

99. ?

100. ?

101. ?

103. finis Happy Late Summer!