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Mounds View Silver View Park Pond <br />Table 1 Existing Vegetation Cover Types in the Silver View Park Pond Restoration Planning <br />Project Area <br />Vegetation Cover Type <br />Acres <br />Key Characteristics <br />Dry-mesic oak woodland <br />0.5 <br />Bur oak and pin oak canopy; native shrubs and ground <br />cover; nonnative trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants <br />resent throughout <br />Nonnative woodland <br />0.8 <br />Black locust dominated canopy; patchy to bare ground <br />cover; native trees, shrubs/vines, and ground layer plants <br />resent but not abundant <br />Lowland hardwoods <br />3.5 <br />Cottonwood, boxelder, elm, aspen canopy; invasive trees <br />present throughout; native shrubs/vines present; dense <br />buckthorn cover; native ground cover present but patchy <br />and low abundance <br />Nonnative grasses - mowed <br />1.6 <br />Mowed nonnative, cool season grasses <br />Nonnative grasses — mowed <br />0.5 <br />Mowed nonnative, cool season grasses with scattered <br />with scattered trees <br />landscape trees including hardwoods and conifers <br />Stormwater pond buffer <br />0.2 <br />Unmowed herbaceous cover along drainage and slopes of <br />basin/pond; dominated by nonnative grasses with sparse <br />cover by native grasses, sedges, & forbs <br />Wetland <br />5.5 <br />Shrub swamp and forested wetland with cottonwood and <br />boxelder canopy; buckthorn dense in forested wetland; <br />glossy buckthorn common in the shrub swamp; purple <br />loosestrife and hybrid cattail dense in open wetland areas <br />Invasive plant cover was generally high throughout the park and in all upland vegetation layers —canopy, <br />understory, and ground layers. Invasive trees included black locust, Siberian elm, white poplar, white <br />mulberry, and Amur maple. These tree species were present in the canopies of wooded areas and also <br />as saplings and root suckers in wooded understories. Common buckthorn, glossy buckthorn, and <br />honeysuckle were present in shrub layers. Invasive herbaceous plants observed were reed canary grass, <br />smooth brome, hybrid cattails, purple loosestrife, Canada thistle, leafy spurge, creeping Charlie, and <br />garlic mustard. Other problematic herbaceous weeds present included bittersweet nightshade, burdock, <br />and motherwort. <br />Project Number: 193806465 <br />