City of Winnipeg, Naturalist Services Branch
Habitat Site Report
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City of Winnipeg, Naturalist Services Branch |
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Habitat Site Report |
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| Assiniboine Forest |
| Site Description: |
| Assiniboine Forest is a 700 acre nature park located at Chalfont Road and Grant Avenue. The habitat consists of aspen |
| and oak forest habitat, with a few small areas of tall-grass prairie restoration and a 12 acre pond built in 1976/77. The area |
| supports a resident population of white-tailed deer as well as nesting waterfowl at the pond. Souh of Grant Ave, the forest |
| contains a network of paved, woodchip, and crushed limestone trails. Paved trails on the perimeter of the forest connect to |
| trails through Assiniboine Park. |
| Location: | Site #: | 542 |
| Large Forest running South of Corydon Ave, North of Wilkes Ave, West of Shaftesbury |
| Habitat Information |
| Grade: | A | Habitat Types: | Aspen Forest, Oak Forest, Prairie, Wetland |
| Area in Hectares: | 287.77 | |
| Plants Found at Site |
| Species Name | Common Name | Date added to list | | Origin |
| Acer negundo | Manitoba maple | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Achillea millefolium | Yarrow | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Achillea millefolium var. occidentalis | Woolly yarrow | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Actaea rubra | Red baneberry | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Agastache foeniculum | Giant-hyssop, Blue giant-hyssop | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Agoseris glauca | False dandelion | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Agropyron dasystachyum | Northern wheat grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Agropyron repens | Quack- grass, Couch-grass | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Agropyron trachycaulum | Slender wheatgrass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Agrostis scabra | Rough hair grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Alisma triviale | Water-plantain | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Allium stellatum | Wild onion, Pink-flowered onion | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Amelanchier alnifolia | Saskatoon | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Amorpha nana | Dwarf false indigo, Fragrant false indigo | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | Pearly everlasting | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Anemone canadensis | Canada anemone | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Anemone cylindrica | Long-fruited anemone | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Anemone multifida | Cut-leaved anemone | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading dogbane | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Apocynum cannabinum | Indian-hemp | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Aralia nudicaulis | Wild sarsparilla | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Arctium lappa | Common burdock | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Arenaria lateriflora | Grove-sandwort | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Arnica chamissonis | Leafy arnica | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Artemisia absinthium | Absinthe | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Artemisia frigida | Pasture sage | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Artemisia ludoviciana | Prairie sage | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Artemisia vulgaris | Common wormwood | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Asclepias ovalifolia | Dwarf milkweed | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common or Silky milkweed | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Asparagus officinalis | Garden asparagus | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Aster brachyactis | Rayless aster | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Aster ciliolatus | Lindleys aster | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Aster ericoides | Many flowered aster | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Aster ericoides var. pansus | Heath aster | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Aster laevis | Smooth aster | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Aster ptarmicoides | Upland white goldenrod | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Aster simplex | Small blue aster | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Astragulus adsurgens var. robustior | Ascending purple milkvetch | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Astragulus agrestis | Milkvetch or purple milkvetch | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Atriplex patula | Spearscale | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Beckmannia syzigachne | Slough grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Bidens cernua | Stick-tight, Smooth beggar-ticks | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Bidens frondosa | Common beggarticks | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake fern | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Brassica kaber | Wild mustard | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Bromus ciliatus | Fringed brome | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Bromus inermis | Smooth brome | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Marsh reed grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Campanula rapunculoides | Creeping bluebell | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Campanula rotundifolia | Harebell, Bluebell | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Caragana arborescens | Common caragana | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Carex aenea | Fernald's hay sedge | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Carex aurea | Golden sedge | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Carex crawei | Crawe's sedge | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Carex lanuginosa | Woolly sedge | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Carex rostrata | Beaked sedge | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Carex spp. | Sedge | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Carex trisperma | Three-sided sedge | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Carex vulpinoidea | Fox sedge | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Chenopodium album | Lambs-quarters | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Cicuta maculata | Water-hemlock | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Cirsium arvense | Canada thistle | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Cirsium discolor | Field thistle | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Cirsium flodmanii | Flodmans thistle | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Cirsium muticum | Swamp thistle | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Coeloglossum viride var. viride | Frog orchis | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Comandra umbellata | Bastard toadflax | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Comandra umbellata ssp. pallida | Pale comandra | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Comandra umbellata ssp. umbellata | Richards comandra, Bastard toad-flax | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Convolvulus sepium | Hedge bindweed, Wild morning-glory | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Cornus stolonifera | Red osier dogwood | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Corylus americana | American hazelnut | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Corylus cornuta | Beaked hazelnut | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Crataegus spp. | Hawthorn | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Crataegus succulenta | Long-spined hawthorn | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Crepis runcinata | Scapose hawks-beard | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Cuscuta spp. | Dodder | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Cypripedium calceolus | Yellow lady's-slipper | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Dracocephalum formosius | False dragonhead | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Echinochloa crusgalli | Barnyard grass | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Elaeagnus angustifolia | Russian olive | 11/18/2007 | | Introduced |
| Eleocharis spp. | Spike-rush | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Epilobium angustifolium | Fireweed, Great willowherb | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Epilobium palustre | Marsh willowherb | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Equisetum arvense | Common horsetail | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Erigeron acris | Northern daisy fleabane | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Erigeron asper | Rough fleabane | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Erigeron canadensis | Horse-weed, Canada fleabane | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Erigeron glabellus | Smooth fleabane | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Philadelphia fleabane | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Erigeron strigosus | Daisy fleabane | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Eupatorium maculatum | Joe-pye | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Fragaria virginiana | Smooth wild strawberry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Gaillardia aristata | Great-flowered gaillardia | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Galium boreale | Northern bedstraw | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Galium triflorum | Sweet-scented bedstraw | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed gentian | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Gentianella crinita | Fringed gentian | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Geranium carolinianum | Carolina wild geranium | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Geum triflorum | Three-flowered avens | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Glechoma hederacea | Gill-over-the-ground | 11/18/2007 | | Introduced |
| Glycyrrhiza lepidota | Wild licorice | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Grindelia squarrosa | Gumweed | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Narrow-leaved sunflower | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Helianthus pauciflorus | Stiff sunflower | 8/11/2010 | | Native |
| Helianthus pauciflorus var. | Beautiful sunflower | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| subrhomboideus |
| Helianthus tuberosus | Jerusalem artichoke | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Ox-eye | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Heracleum lanatum | Cow-parsnip | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Heuchera richardsonii | Alumroot | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Hieracium cynoglossoides | Woolly hawkweed | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Hieracium umbellatum | Narrow-leaf hawkweed | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Hordeum jubatum | Foxtail barley | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Juncus balticus | Baltic rush | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Juncus balticus var. littoralis | Rush | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Juncus dudleyi | Dudley's rush | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella | Blue lettuce | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Lathyrus ochroleucus | Pale vetchling | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Lathyrus palustris | Marsh vetchling | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Lathyrus venosus | Wild peavine | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice cutgrass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Leonurus cardiaca | Common motherwort | 11/18/2007 | | Introduced |
| Liatris ligulistylis | Meadow blazingstar | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted blazingstar | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Lilium philadelphicum | Wood lily | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Lonicera dioica | Twining Honeysuckle | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Lonicera tatarica | Tartarian honesuckle | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Lycopus americanus | Water-horehound | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Lysimachia ciliata | Fringed loosestrife | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Lysimachia thyrsiflora | Tufted loosestrife | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Lythrum salicaria | Purple loosestrife | 11/18/2007 | | Introduced |
| Maianthemum canadense | Two-leaved Soloman's-seal,Wild lilly of | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| | the valley |
| Malus spp. | Apple tree | 11/18/2007 | | Unknown |
| Matricaria maritima | Scentless chamomile | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Matricaria matricarioides | Pineappleweed | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Medicago lupulina | Black medick | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Medicago sativa | Alfalfa | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Melilotus alba | White sweet-clover | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Melilotus officinalis | Yellow sweet-clover | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Melissa officinalis | Common balm | 11/18/2007 | | Introduced |
| Mentha arvensis | Field mint | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Moldavica parviflora | American dragon-head | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild bergamont | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Monotropa uniflora | Indian-pipe | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Orobanche uniflora | One-flowered broom-rape | 7/15/2006 | | Native |
| Orthocarpus luteus | Owls-clover | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Panicum leibergii | Liebergs panic-grass | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Panicum virgatum | Switch grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia creeper | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Petalostemon candidum | White prairie-clover | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Petalostemon purpureum | Purple prairie-clover | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Petasites sagittatus | Arrow-leaved colt's foot | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Phleum pratense | Timothy | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Phragmites australis | Common reed grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Picea glauca | White spruce | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Plantago major | Common plantain | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Poa compressa | Canada blue grass | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Poa palustris | Fowl blue grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Poa pratensis | Kentucky blue grass | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Poa spp. | Blue grass | 8/11/2010 | | Unknown |
| Polygala senega | Seneca snakeroot | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Polygonum aviculare | Doorweed | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Polygonum convolvulus | Wild buckwheat | 8/11/2010 | | Introduced |
| Polygonum lapathifolium | Willow-weed | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Populus balsamifera | Balsam poplar | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Populus tremuloides | Trembling aspen | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Potentilla anserina | Silverweed | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Potentilla argentea | Silvery cinquefoil | 8/11/2010 | | Introduced |
| Prunus americana | American plum | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Prunus nigra | Canada plum | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Prunus pensylvanica | Pin cherry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Prunus virginiana | Red-fruited choke cherry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Pyrola asarifolia | Pink wintergreen | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Pyrola elliptica | Shinleaf | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Quercus macrocarpa | Bur oak | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Ranunculus cymbalaria | Seaside buttercup | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Ranunculus macounii | Macoun | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Ranunculus pensylvanicus | Bristly crowfoot | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Ratibida columnifera | Long-headed coneflower | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Rhus radicans var. rydbergii | Poison ivy | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Ribes hirtellum | Low gooseberry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Ribes oxyacanthoides | Bristly wild gooseberry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Rorippa islandica | Marsh yellow cress | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Rosa acicularis | Prickly rose | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Rosa blanda | Smooth rose | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Rosa spp. | Rose | 8/11/2010 | | Unknown |
| Rubus idaeus | Wild red raspberry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Rubus pubescens | Dewberry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed susan | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Rumex crispus | Curled dock | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Rumex maritimus | Golden dock | 11/18/2007 | | Unknown |
| Salix bebbiana | Bebbs willow, Beaked willow | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Salix discolor | Pussy willow | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Salix exigua | Sandbar willow | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Salix fragilis | Brittle willow | 11/18/2007 | | Introduced |
| Salix humilis | Gray willow | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Salix petiolaris | Basket willow | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Salix planifolia | Tea-leaved willow | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Salix spp. | Willow | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Sambucus nigra | European black elder | 11/18/2007 | | Introduced |
| Sanicula marilandica | Snakeroot | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Scirpus acutus | Hard-stemmed bulrush | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Scutellaria galericulata | Common skullcap | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Senecio spp. | Groundsel | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Sisyrinchium montanum | Blue-eyed grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Sium suave | Water-parsnip | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Smilacina racemosa | False spikenard | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Smilacina stellata | Star-flowered Solomon's-seal | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Smilax herbacea | Carrionflower | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Solidago canadensis | Canada goldenrod | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Solidago gigantea | Late goldenrod | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Solidago nemoralis | Showy goldenrod | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Solidago rigida | Stiff goldenrod | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Sonchus arvensis | Perennial sow-thistle | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Sonchus asper | Spiny-leaved sow-thistle | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Spartina pectinata | Prairie cord grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Spiraea alba | Narrow-leaved meadowsweet | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Sporobolus heterolepis | Prairie dropseed | 8/11/2010 | | Native |
| Stachys palustris | Marsh hedge-nettle | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Stachys tenuifolia | Smooth hedge nettle | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Steironema ciliatum | Fringed loosestrife | 7/1/1999 | | Unknown |
| Stipa spartea | Spear grass | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Symphoricarpos albus | Snowberry | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Symphoricarpos occidentalis | Western snowberry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Taraxacum officinale | Dandelion | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Thalictrum dasycarpum | Tall meadow-rue | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Thalictrum venulosum | Veiny meadow-rue | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Thlaspi arvense | Stinkweed, Field pennycress | 11/18/2007 | | Introduced |
| Tragopogon dubius | Yellow goats-beard | 8/11/2010 | | Introduced |
| Trifolium hybridum | Alsike clover | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Trifolium pratense | Red clover | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Trifolium repens | White clover | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Typha latifolia | Common cat-tail | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Ulmus americana | American elm | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Urtica dioica | Stinging nettle | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Veronica scutellata | Marsh speedwell | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Veronicastrum virginicum | Culvers-root | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Viburnum lentago | Nannyberry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Viburnum opulus var. americanum | High bush-cranberry | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Viburnum rafinesquianum | Downy arrow-wood | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Vicia americana | Common vetch | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Vicia cracca | Tufted vetch | 7/1/1999 | | Introduced |
| Viola nephrophylla | Northern bog violet | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Viola pedatifida | Crowfoot violet | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Viola pubescens | Downy yellow violet | 11/18/2007 | | Native |
| Viola pubescens var. pubescens | Smooth yellow violet | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Zigadenus elegans | White camas | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Zizia aptera | Heart-leaved alexanders | 7/1/1999 | | Native |
| Zizia aurea | Golden alexanders | 7/1/1999 | | Native |