Broad-leaved deciduous cottonwoods, alders, and willows, and aspens line streamsides and canyons. In Minnesota, aspens, willows, grasses, birches, alders, sumacs, and strawberries are consumed when green. In addition to pines, rowans, birches and aspens grow on Hindens rev. There are also many ash trees and a scattering of silver birches and aspens. The area is populated with Engelmann spruces, aspens, and alpine meadows full of wildflowers. This aspen usually grows in even-aged, mixed stands, most commonly with quaking aspens. Bigtooth and quaking aspens frequently dominated the postdisturbance forests. Quaking aspens thrive in high-moisture montane soils. The aspens are among the most important boreal broadleaf trees. Bigtooth aspens are dioecious, medium-sized deciduous trees with straight trunks and gently ascending branches. These lakes are often surrounded by varieties of pine trees, aspens, and other high-altitude trees. The name means land of the quaking aspens. Bigtooth aspens produce seeds from wind-pollinated flower clusters, known as catkins. Aspens are more characteristic of the higher elevations in the Rocky Mountains. In Alberta, snowshoe hares use upland shrub-sapling stages of regenerating aspens (either postfire or postharvest).