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The document lists and provides brief descriptions of various tree species found in Prospect Park, including their common and Latin names. It mentions that the long bean pods of the Northern Catalpa tree provided clues about how the landscape used to look thousands of years ago when the region was near the equator. Additional resources are listed on trees, plants, rivers, and environmental advocacy in Minnesota.
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- 2. Conifer / Evergreens: White Pine Red Pine Cedars Spruce Ginkgo Tamarack White mulberry story of failed silk mfg project Russian Olive FDR windbreak story Ginkgo living fossil story Buckeye trees TO know IN PROSPECT PARK Broadleaf / Deciduous: Northern CatalpaCatalpa speciosa Plains Cottonwood Box elder American Elm Bur oak Basswood Silver Maple Black Walnut Hackberry Willow
- 3. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpa-speciosa.shtml Have you seen the long bean pods of the catalpa on the sidewalk and wondered what animal would want a bean that size? Its a clue to how different Prospect Park used to look. X,000 years ago in the Paleozoic When the land mass that is now MN hovered near the equator, blah blah also trumpet vine & hummingbirds reminders of tropical past Northern catalpa Catalpa speciosa
- 4. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/plains-cottonwood Shape of stem makes them flap...like aspens Dakotah story about star inside twig, sound of cottonwood PLAINS cottonwood Populus deltoides
- 6. Drawing by: Date: Location: www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpa-speciosa.shtml Dutch elm disease....settler colonialism american elm Ulmus americana
- 7. Drawing by: Date: Location: www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/bur-oak see the other green line bur oak Quercus macrocarpa
- 8. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/american-basswood Basswood / linden basswood Tilia americana
- 9. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple maple flowers!! silver maple Acer saccharinum
- 11. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/hackberry funny bumps hackberry Celtis occidentalis
- 12. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple 5 needles grandmother tree white pine Pinus alba
- 14. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple maple flowers!! Juniper Acer saccharinum
- 15. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple maple flowers!! cedar Acer saccharinum
- 17. Drawing by: Date: Location: www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/bur-oak see the other green line bur oak Quercus macrocarpa
- 18. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple Never shake hands with a spruce. spruce Picea species
- 19. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpa- speciosa.shtml Have you seen the long bean pods of the catalpa on the sidewalk and wondered what animal would want a bean that size? Its a clue to how different Prospect Park used to look. X,000 years ago in the Paleozoic When the land mass that is now MN hovered near the equator, blah blah also trumpet vine & hummingbirds reminders of tropical past Russian olive Catalpa speciosa
- 20. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpa- speciosa.shtml Have you seen the long bean pods of the catalpa on the sidewalk and wondered what animal would want a bean that size? Its a clue to how different Prospect Park used to look. X,000 years ago in the Paleozoic When the land mass that is now MN hovered near the equator, blah blah also trumpet vine & hummingbirds reminders of tropical past tamarack Larix laricina
- 21. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpa- speciosa.shtml Select any tree you would like to befriend and see if you can identify it. Websites below ARTISTS CHOICE _________________ Latin name
- 23. SOCIAL HISTORY martin case jim crow of the north slaverys reach under the witches hat TREES & PLANTS OF MN https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info https://trees.umn.edu/yea https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/trees/native-trees.html RIVER https://www.nps.gov/miss/learn/historyculture/river-of- history-chapter-1.htm ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY https://www.intersectionalenvironmentalist.com resources
- 24. Drawing by: Date: Location: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/plains-cottonwood Shape of stem makes them flap...like aspens Dakotah story about star inside twig, sound of cottonwood PLAINS cottonwood Populus deltoides