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Wooded Osage Plains
Ecoregion
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The Wooded Osage Plains ecoregion is a non-glaciated undulating plain with smooth, low, limestone escarpments and small areas of exposed bedrock. Pennsylvanian limestone, sandstone, and shale strata with differential erosion has produced a more rolling topography than in the Cherokee Plains (40d) to the south. The upland prairie has a greater proportion of southwestern plants and animals, a lesser proportion of northern species, and a greater diversity in streamside woody vegetation than the Loess Flats and Till Plains (40a) to the north. Topography of this region also tends to be smoother than the till plains of 40a. The potential natural vegetation is a mosaic of oak-
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Plants
Virginia Creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (species)
159
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”
111
Observations
JAN - DEC
Ground Ivy
Glechoma hederacea (species),
“Creeping Charlie”, “Field Balm”, “Run-Away-Robin”, “Gill-Over-the-Ground”, “Alehoof”, “Tunhoof”, “Catsfoot”
56
Observations
JAN - DEC
Podophyllum peltatum
SPECIES ·
“Mayapple”
42
Observations
JAN - DEC
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata (species),
“Jack-by-the-Hedge”, “Garlic Root”, “Hedge Garlic”, “Sauce-Alone”, “Penny Hedge”, “Poor Man's Mustard”
37
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis (species),
“Grey Squirrel”, “Gray Squirrel”
9
Observations
JAN - DEC
Eastern Cottontail
Sylvilagus floridanus (species)
9
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Toad
Anaxyrus americanus (species)
8
Observations
JAN - DEC
Eastern Racer
Coluber constrictor (species),
“Racer”
6
Observations
JAN - DEC
Lithobates catesbeianus
SPECIES ·
“American Bullfrog”, “Bullfrog”, “Common Bullfrog”
5
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Birds
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis (species),
“Common Cardinal”
45,123
Observations
JAN - DEC
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata (species)
37,185
Observations
JAN - DEC
Black-Capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapillus (species),
“Parus Atricapillus”, “Poecile Atricapilla”
33,907
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Robin
Turdus migratorius (species)
32,900
Observations
JAN - DEC
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura (species),
“American Mourning Dove”, “Rain Dove”, “Carolina Pigeon”, “Carolina Turtledove”, “Zenaidura Caroliensis”, “Zenaidura Macroura Caroliensis”
31,438
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus (species),
“Monarch”, “Milkweed”, “Common Tiger”, “Wanderer”, “Black Veined Brown”, “Common Tiger Wanderer”
2,142
Observations
JAN - DEC
Bombus fraternus
SPECIES ·
“Southern Plains Bumble Bee”
7
Observations
JAN - DEC
Bombus impatiens
SPECIES ·
“Common Eastern Bumblebee”
6
Observations
JAN - DEC
Blue Dasher
Pachydiplax longipennis (species)
5
Observations
JAN - DEC
Powdered Dancer
Argia moesta (species)
5
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Fungi
Peniophora albobadia
SPECIES
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Laetiporus sulphureus
SPECIES ·
“Crab-of-the-Woods”, “Chicken-of-the-Woods”, “Sulphur Polypore”, “Sulphur Shelf”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Polyporus michelii
SPECIES
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Coprinopsis atramentaria
SPECIES ·
“Common Inkcap”, “Smooth Ink Cap”, “Gray Inkcap”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Omphalotus illudens
SPECIES
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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Taxonomy
Region
49
Ecoregion
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Ecoregion
Wooded Osage Plains
Wooded Osage Plains
Wooded Osage Plains
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