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<br /> . <br /> C. Vegetation <br /> The corridor is covered by seven general plant community categories. <br /> Refer to maps on pages VI-12 through VI-17. <br /> 1. Abandoned Field and Dry Meadow (F) - former agricultural land (crop <br /> fields and pasture), gently rolling upland dominated by grasses and <br /> field forbs, cleared of woody vegetation except for isolated specimens <br /> or invading pioneer tree and shrub species. <br /> Composition - bromegrass, golden rod, prairie clover. <br /> Unit Segments - Shoreview, Arden Hills. <br /> 2. Scrub Shrub - Wet Meadow (S) - long grass wetland interspersed with <br /> invading pioneer tree and shrub species, creekside floodplain. <br /> Composition - reed canary grass, shrub willow, cottonwood, willow, <br /> box elder, ash. <br /> Unit Segments - Shoreview, New Brighton-Mounds View. <br /> 3. Marsh (M) - emergent aquatic vegetation located in lowland areas . <br /> normally covered by standing water such as edges of lakes (bays and <br /> former basins), along streams and ditches and in poorly drained <br /> depressions. <br /> Composition - cattails, bullrushes, reed canary grass, sedges. <br /> Unit Segments - Shoreview, New Brighton-Mounds View. <br /> 4. Dry Woods (D) - upland forest community located on exposed sandy <br /> and porous flat lands, and on thin soils on hilltops, ridges and side <br /> slopes of ridges. <br /> Overstory Composition - white oak, bur oak, red oak, northern pin <br /> oak, black cherry, paper birch, quaking aspen. <br /> Unit Segment - Shoreview, Arden Hills, New Brighton-Mounds View. <br /> 5. Wet Woods (W) - lowland forest community bordering lake shore and <br /> marshes, and invading wet meadows and tall shrub-communities. <br /> Overstory Composition - ash, willow, cottonwood, American elm, <br /> quaking aspen, box elder. <br /> Unit Segments - Shoreview, Arden Hills, New Brighton-Mounds View. . <br /> VI-I0 <br />