Kapper Sand

Kapper Sand is a shallow slang of the Main Stem of the Boquet with water present in the slang only during the spring. The site is mainly covered by a mostly closed woodland but there are areas dominated by a well developed shrub layer and outlying areas of herbaceous marsh.

Species found at this site include:

Scientific Name

Common Name

Acer rubrum  L.

red maple

Athyrium filix-femina ssp angustum (Willdenow) G.Lawson

northern lady fern

Betula lenta L.

sweet birch

Carex crinita Lam. var crinita

fringed sedge

Carex lupulina  Muhl. ex Willd.

hop sedge

Carya glabra  (P. Mill.) Sweet  

pignut hickory

Cornus obliqua  Raf.

silky dogwood

Crataegus chrysocarpa Ashe

roundleaf hawthorn

Echinocystis lobata (Michx.) Torr. & Gray

wild cucumber

Eleocharis acicularis (L.) Roemer & J.A. Schultes var acicularis

needle spikerush

Eragrostis frankii  C.A. Mey. ex Steud.

sandbar lovegrass

Fraxinus nigra Marsh.

black ash

Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh.

green ash

Galium palustre  L.

marsh bedstraw

Geum rivale  L.

purple avens

Hamamelis virginiana L.

witch hazel

Impatiens capensis Meerb.

jewelweed

Iris versicolor L.

blue flag

Juglans cinerea L.

butternut

Laportea canadensis (L.) Weddell

wood nettle

Leersia oryzoides  (L.) Sw.

rice cutgrass

Lemna minor L.

lesser duckweed

Lysimachia nummularia L.

moneywort

Lythrum salicaria L.

purple loosestrife

Matteuccia struthiopteris (L.) Todaro

ostrich fern

Onoclea sensibilis L.

sensitive fern

Osmunda regalis var spectabilis (Willd.) Gray

royal fern

Ostrya virginiana (P. Mill) K. Koch var virginiana

hop hornbeam

Oxalis stricta L.

common yellow sorrel

Phalaris arundinaceae  L.

canary reedgrass

Populus deltoides ssp deltoides Bartr. ex Marsh 

cottonwood

Potamogeton natans L.

floating pondweed

Rhamnus catharctica L.

common buckthorn

Scirpus atrovirens Willd.

dark green bulrush

Scirpus cyperinuus (L.) Kunth

wool-rush

Scirpus expansus  Fern.

woodland bulrush

Sium suave Walt.

water parsnip

Symphyotrichum racemosum (Ell.) Nesom

smooth white old field aster

Typha latifolia L.

wide leaved cattail

Ulmus rubra Muhl.

slippery elm

Viburnum lentago L.

nanneyberry

Vitis riparia Michx.

riverbank grape

 

GPS coordinates of sampling points:

Sampling point

KS1A

e

4900250

n

E622708

KS1B

e

4900250

n

E622748

KS1C

e

4900250

n

E622803

KS1D

e

4900250

n

E622828

KS2A

e

4900350

n

E622843

KS2B

e

4900350

n

E622845

KS2C

e

4900350

n

E622868

KS3A

e

4900258

n

E622713

 

 

If you have comments/questions, please contact Dr. Meiyin Wu, Dr. Dennis Kalma or Boquet River Association . 

This page was last updated on January 08, 2007 .