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IKA043
PERSIMMON WOODS
- Location:
- St. Charles Township T40N R8E Sec 23
Size: 80 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Mesic upland forest (C)
- Northern flatwoods (C)
- Wet-mesic upland forest (C)
- Basin marsh (C)
- Rare Plants:
- Carex crus-corvi/Crowfoot fox sedge
- Carex greacillima/Purple-sheathed graceful sedge
- Carex retrorsa/Deflexed bottle-brush sedge
- Carex squarrosa/Narrow-leaved cattail sedge
- Chelone glabra/Turtle head
- Dryopteris cristata/Crested wood fern
- Juglans cinera/Butternut
- Lycopus rubellus/Stalked water horehound
- Sisrinchium angustifolium/Stout blue-eyed grass
- Rare Animals:
- Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum/Tiger salamander
- Anostraca sp./Fairy shrimp
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
- Owned, managed, and protected by the St. Charles Park District
Management Problems:
- Was grazed and then let go
- Buckthorn
- Elm
- Ash
- Maple
- Linden
- Hydrology affected by adjacent development
- Inappropriate use by neighbors (yard waste disposal, bike jumps, paint ball, unleashed dogs, deer feeding, etc.)
