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City of Lino Lakes SWMP | February 8, 2013 Draft | 47 Table 6 . Documented Rare Features in Lino Lakes Scientific Name Common Name Number of Records Plant Community Northern Poor Fen Class Northern Poor Fen 1 Tamarack Swamp (Southern) Type Tamarack Swamp (Southern) 2 Plants Agalinis purpurea Purple Gerardia 4 Decodon verticillatus Waterwillow 1 Fimbristylis autumnalis Autumn Fimbristylis 5 Platanthera flava var. herbiola Tubercled Rein -orchid 1 Polygala cruciata Cross -leaved Milkwort 2 Potamogeton bicupulatus Snailseed Pondweed 1 Rotala ramosior Tooth -cup 3 Scirpus clintonii Clinton's Bulrush 1 Viola lanceolata Lance -leaved Violet 7 Xyris torta Twisted Yellow -eyed Grass 1 Birds Bartramia longicauda Upland Sandpiper 1 Cygnus buccinator Trumpeter Swan 1 Grus canadensis Sandhill Crane 1 Haliaeetus leucocephalus Bald Eagle 7 Sterna forsteri Forster's Tern 4 Colonial Waterbird Nesting Area Colonial Waterbird Nesting Site 3 Reptiles Emydoidea blandingii Blanding's Turtle 10 Mammals Pipistrellus subflavus Eastern Pipistrelle 1 Presettlement Vegetation Native vegetation patterns of Lino Lakes were described at the time of Minnesota’s Original Land Survey (circa 1850), and prior to European settlement of Minnesota. Native vegetation communities within the City prior to European settlement were primarily comprised of oak barrens and savannas, aspen/oak forests and woodlands, dry, mesic, and wet prairies, rich fens, poor fens, bogs, ta marack swamps, a network of shallow lakes and associated marshes, and inclusions of mesic hardwood forest (Figure 21 ). Large -scale natural processes dramatically infl uenced the formation, establishment, and succession of natural vegetation patterns and natural communities within the landscape over thousands of years prior to European settlement. These natural processes include: surface and sub -surface hydrology, floodi ng, drought, herbivory, wildlife migration, plant dispersal, plant community succession, and occasional to frequent wildfires. Over the past 150 years, the natural landscape and associated landscape processes have been widely altered to accommodate agricul tural land uses, development, and other anthropocentric uses of the landscape. The original land survey of the Lino Lakes area was conducted in the middle 1800s. It provides good information about vegetation in and around the City of Lino Lakes prior to E uro -American settlement (U.S. General Land Office, 1853). Interpretation of surveyor's notes indicated the presence of floodplains along large lakes, wetlands, savannas, and mesic forests in protected lakeshores and on islands.