Quadrat Study - Data Summary
Dominance (Average Percent Cover)


Site Index for ( Quadrat Study Project - Prairie Advocates Project - Online Prairie Data)

Fermilab, 16B Study
2009, fall
Number of Quadrats: 209


Native Prairie Plants

Plant Name Dominance Type
Big Bluestem 15.57 grass
Stiff Goldenrod 3.22 forb
Nodding Wild Onion 0.00 forb
Compass Plant 6.65 forb
Indian Grass 18.73 grass
Switch Grass 2.28 grass
Rattlesnake Master 0.81 forb
Prairie Dock 1.21 forb
Rosinweed 1.52 forb
Yellow Coneflower 0.47 forb
Black-eyed Susan 0.06 forb
Tall Coreopsis 0.56 forb
Sawtooth Sunflower 0.17 forb
Wild Bergamot 1.21 forb
Mountain Mint 8.92 forb
New England Aster 0.41 forb
Prairie Cord Grass 0.94 grass
Showy Tick Trefoil 0.93 forb
Pale Purple Coneflower 0.00 forb
Dense Blazing Star 0.04 forb
Culver's Root 0.08 forb
Wild Quinine 0.14 forb
Purple Prairie Clover 0.01 forb
White Prairie Clover 0.08 forb
White Wild Indigo 2.32 forb
Cup Plant 0.00 forb
Tall Boneset 0.00 forb
Grass-leaved Goldenrod 0.03 forb
Heath Aster 0.02 forb
Riddel Goldenrod 0.20 forb
Bush Clover 0.18 forb
Boneset 0.00 forb
Golden Alexanders 0.00 forb
Foxglove Beard Tongue 1.04 forb
Sedge spp. 0.46 sedge
Lead Plant 0.12 forb
Sky-blue aster 0.01 forb
Yellowish Gentian 0.52 forb
Prairie Sunflower 0.00 forb
Stiff Aster 0.01 forb
American Vetch 0.00 forb
Dogbane 0.17 forb
Prairie Blazing Star 0.04 forb
Compass Dock Hybrid 0.07 forb
Brown-eyed Susan 0.04 forb
Wild Onion 0.02 forb

Native Prairie Plant Diversity: 4.23


Invasives

Plant Name Dominance Type
Clovers (ground) 0.03 forb
Common Milkweed 0.01 forb
Common Ragweed 0.01 forb
Daisy Fleabane 0.11 forb
Dandelion 0.00 forb
Drummonds Aster 0.37 forb
Hairy Aster 0.05 forb
Hairy Vetch 0.67 forb
Sweet Clovers (tall) 0.10 forb
Tall goldenrod 4.20 forb
Teasel 0.02 forb
Thistle 0.22 forb
Unlisted-Grasslike 25.25 grass
Unlisted-Oval leaf 0.91 forb
Unlisted-Round leaf 0.02 forb
Unlisted-Triangular Pointed Leaf 0.22 forb
Wild Carrot 0.19 forb
Yarrow 0.17 forb

Invasive Diversity: 1.47


Bar Charts - 10x10 Quadrat - Data for Spreadsheets

Data Summaries from Previous Years

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