Quadrat Study - Data Summary
Dominance (Average Percent Cover)

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

Fermilab, 16B Study
2006, summer
Number of Quadrats: 28

Native Prairie Plants

Plant Name Dominance Type
Big Bluestem 27.21 grass
Stiff Goldenrod 10.64 forb
Compass Plant 2.71 forb
Indian Grass 23.89 grass
Switch Grass 1.71 grass
Rattlesnake Master 0.96 forb
Prairie Dock 0.43 forb
Rosinweed 2.00 forb
Yellow Coneflower 1.39 forb
Black-eyed Susan 0.04 forb
Tall Coreopsis 0.46 forb
Sawtooth Sunflower 0.23 forb
Wild Bergamot 1.79 forb
Mountain Mint 3.46 forb
New England Aster 0.16 forb
Prairie Cord Grass 1.61 grass
Showy Tick Trefoil 0.04 forb
Pale Purple Coneflower 0.04 forb
Culver's Root 0.61 forb
Wild Quinine 0.50 forb
Gray Goldenrod 0.21 forb
Purple Prairie Clover 0.04 forb
White Prairie Clover 0.57 forb
White Wild Indigo 0.40 forb
Cup Plant 0.08 forb
Tall Boneset 0.07 forb
Grass-leaved Goldenrod 0.04 forb
Heath Aster 0.05 forb
Bush Clover 0.72 forb
Golden Alexanders 0.04 forb
Foxglove Beard Tongue 0.25 forb
Lead Plant 0.07 forb
Yellowish Gentian 0.11 forb
Dogbane 0.04 forb
Prairie Blazing Star 0.04 forb
Compass Dock Hybrid 0.04 forb
Downy Gentian 0.01 forb

Native Prairie Plant Diversity: 5.68

Invasives

Plant Name Dominance Type
Clovers (ground) 3.14 forb
Common Ragweed 0.02 forb
Curled Dock 0.05 forb
Daisy Fleabane 0.14 forb
Drummonds Aster 0.03 forb
Ground Cherry 0.03 forb
Hairy Vetch 0.03 forb
Sweet Clovers (tall) 0.79 forb
Tall goldenrod 2.89 forb
Unlisted-Grasslike 19.57 grass
Unlisted-Oval leaf 1.21 forb
Unlisted-Round leaf 0.04 forb
Unlisted-Triangular Pointed Leaf 0.25 forb
Wild Carrot 0.15 forb
Yarrow 0.96 forb

Invasive Diversity: 2.50

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