Locality:
United States, Wisconsin, Florence, Grandma Lake State Natural Area (No. 305) within the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Eagle River-Florence Ranger District [Also includes]: Sec. 34.
Habitat:
495 acres. Lake wetland contains a 44 acre pristine soft water bog lake surrounded by an open mat that supports an unusual and diverse flora. Ringing the lake is a wide, open mat of sphagnum moss, sedge, rushes, and low ericaceous shrubs. Locally, the mat composition is quite unusual, with species such as bog club-moss, horned bladderwort and a bulrush assuming dominance; some rare plants include bog arrow-grass (Triglochin maritimum), dragon's-mouth orchid (Arethusa bulbosa), and two sedges, livid (Carex livid) and small-headed bog sedge (C.tenuflora).