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IL 7. Long Spring and Cove Spring. Acreage: 25 estimated. 



Location: Pope County; Paducah, NE 7.5' Quadrangle; 6 miles N and 0.5 mile 

 E of Unionville; 2.5 miles S and 2 miles E of Bay City; 0.75 mile W of Azotus 

 Church. Site may be reached only by forest service trails. 



Description: The two springs form the most extensive marshy woods habitat of 

 this type in the state. Many of the characteristic plants are rare in other parts of 

 Illinois. The sedge (Carex incomperta) and southern arrowhead (Sagittaria lon- 

 girostra) are restricted to these habitats in Illinois. Another sedge (Carex bro- 

 moides), a bulrush (Scirpus polyphyllus), and an orchid (Habenaria clavellata) 

 are restricted to this habitat in southern Illinois. At a very slightly higher eleva- 

 tion than the source of the springs, the lowland forest is the home of the only Il- 

 linois station for the whorled pogonia orchid (Isotria verticillata), the only 

 southern Illinois station for New York fern {Thelypteris noveboracensis) , as well 

 as other rare species such as crane-fly orchid (Tipularia discolor) and pink St. 

 John's wort {Triadenum tubulosum). 



Encroachments: There is a proposal for building a lake which would inundate 

 Long Spring. 



Ownership: USFS. 



Data source: Robert H. Mohlenbrock, Department of Botany, Southern Illinois 

 University, Carbondale, III. 62901. 



Other knowledgeable persons: Mr. John Schwegman, Illinois Nature Preserves 

 Commission, Department of Botany, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 

 111.62901. 





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