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Michigan Lake Plain
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The Michigan Lake Plain ecoregion is a sandy coastal strip with beaches, high dunes, beach ridges, mucky interdunal depressions, and swales. Its lake-moderated climate as well as its beach and dune plant communities differentiate it from inland ecoregions. Ecoregion 56d has greater relief, higher woodland density, more conifers in its savanna community, and less made-land than the Chicago Lake Plain (54b). Urban and industrial activity as well as fruit and vegetable farming occurs; scattered woodland grows on the lee side of dunes and in some poorly-drained areas.
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Plants
Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria (species)
259
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Pokeweed
Phytolacca americana (species),
“Virginian Pokeweed”, “Pokeweed”, “Inkberry”, “American Nightshade”, “Cancer Jalap”, “Coakum”, “Garget”, “Pigeon Berry”, “Pocan Bush”, “Poke Root”, “Red Ink Plant”, “Redweed”, “Scoke”
154
Observations
JAN - DEC
Virginia Creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (species)
128
Observations
JAN - DEC
Reed Canarygrass
Phalaris arundinacea (species),
“Reed-Grass”
114
Observations
JAN - DEC
Typha × Glauca
Typha glauca (species)
110
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
Lithobates clamitans
SPECIES ·
“Green Frog”
8
Observations
JAN - DEC
Eastern Red Bat
Lasiurus borealis (species),
“Red Bat”
7
Observations
JAN - DEC
Red-Backed Salamander
Plethodon cinereus (species),
“Eastern Red-Backed Salamander”, “Red Back Salamander”
5
Observations
JAN - DEC
Bufo Fowleri
Anaxyrus fowleri (species),
“Fowler's Toad”
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Toad
Anaxyrus americanus (species)
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Birds
American Crow
Corvus brachyrhynchos (species)
55,839
Observations
JAN - DEC
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis (species),
“Common Cardinal”
52,406
Observations
JAN - DEC
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos (species),
“Wild Duck”, “Mallard Duck”, “Common Mallard”, “Northern Mallard”
51,180
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Robin
Turdus migratorius (species)
50,306
Observations
JAN - DEC
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata (species)
49,334
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus (species),
“Monarch”, “Milkweed”, “Common Tiger”, “Wanderer”, “Black Veined Brown”, “Common Tiger Wanderer”
693
Observations
JAN - DEC
Bombus impatiens
SPECIES ·
“Common Eastern Bumblebee”
80
Observations
JAN - DEC
Harmonia axyridis
SPECIES ·
“Harlequin Ladybird”, “Harlequin”
16
Observations
JAN - DEC
Campaea perlata
SPECIES ·
“Pale Beauty”
14
Observations
JAN - DEC
Blue Dasher
Pachydiplax longipennis (species)
12
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Fungi
Hyphodontia arguta
SPECIES
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Stereum ostrea
SPECIES ·
“False Turkey-Tail”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Laetiporus sulphureus
SPECIES ·
“Crab-of-the-Woods”, “Chicken-of-the-Woods”, “Sulphur Polypore”, “Sulphur Shelf”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Imleria
GENUS
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Clitocybe Nuda
Lepista nuda (species),
“Wood Blewit”, “Blue Stalk Mushroom”, “Tricholoma Nudum”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Taxonomy
Region
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Ecoregion
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Ecoregion
Michigan Lake Plain
Michigan Lake Plain
Michigan Lake Plain
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