Field report: June 9, 2009
Today’s outing was a quest for yellow iris at Long Lake Regional Park. It’s a relatively new invasive species I first found growing there a couple years ago. I volunteered to hunt down all the spots it’s growing for the Ramsey County Cooperative Weed Management Area.
I recorded about 30 spots with 1 or more iris leaf clumps along the west shore of the lake, 12 of which are blooming. Only 2 have been confirmed as blueflag. That’s 10 confirmed clumps of yellow iris. It’s already worse than I thought, and most of the plants aren’t even blooming yet. 
Tags: invasive species, Long Lake Park, nature, Wildflowers
