BUTLER                      8 Poplar Bluff Forest

Poplar Bluff Forest Natural Area

An 80-acre area within the Poplar Bluff Conservation Area, four miles north of Poplar Bluff in the SE1/4, NE1/4 of Section 15, T25N, R6E, Poplar Bluff 7.5 min. topographic map. Access is by gravel road. Designated December 20, 1971, December 14, 1979 and March 10, 1995.

Natural Features--A very diverse bottomland forest on deep, productive soils at the contact zone of the Mississippi Lowlands and the Ozark Natural Divisions. Overstory trees include cherrybark, swamp chestnut, pin and southern red oaks; red, silver and sugar maple; and sweet and black gum, sycamore, rock elm and black cherry. The natural area is owned by the Department of Conservation. For further information contact the District Forester, Bootheel Forest District, 1207 N. One Mile Road, Dexter, MO 63841, phone 573/624-7483.

Woods at Poplar Bluff Forest Natural Area		Purple Fringeless Orchid (Habenaria permaoena)