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See also: Grass search and Carex search

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Names

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Plant name (common or Latin):

Family (common or Latin):

Note: Family names have recently been in upheaval. We have a list of Family changes.

Plant description

Growth habit

 wildflower

 vine

 tree

 shrub

Flower description

Flower color any blue pink purple yellow white orange red green other

Flower shape any irregular indistinct 3-petals 4-petals 5-petals 6-petals 7+petals tubular bell

Cluster shape any flat round spike raceme panicle whorled

Leaf description

Leaf attachment any alternate opposite whorl basal

Leaf type any simple lobed compound palmate

Characteristics any toothed edge toothless wavy/curled edge hairy evergreen

Other Characteristics

Stems any round angled or ridged flat or winged hairy or rough thorny or prickly smooth

Fruit type any berry/drupe capsule/pod seed with plume seed without plume barbed nut

Location

General habitat any fields/prairies woods/thickets wetlands/shores roadsides/waste areas rocks/cliffs/outcrops

MN County*
(may choose multiples) any Aitkin Anoka Becker Beltrami Benton Big Stone Blue Earth Brown Carlton Carver Cass Chippewa Chisago Clay Clearwater Cook Cottonwood Crow Wing Dakota Dodge Douglas Faribault Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue Grant Hennepin Houston Hubbard Isanti Itasca Jackson Kanabec Kandiyohi Kittson Koochiching Lac Qui Parle Lake Lake of the Woods Le Sueur Lincoln Lyon Mahnomen Marshall Martin McLeod Meeker Mille Lacs Morrison Mower Murray Nicollet Nobles Norman Olmsted Otter Tail Pennington Pine Pipestone Polk Pope Ramsey Red Lake Redwood Renville Rice Rock Roseau Scott Sherburne Sibley St. Louis Stearns Steele Stevens Swift Todd Traverse Wabasha Wadena Waseca Washington Watonwan Wilkin Winona Wright Yellow Medicine

* Note: some counties are underreported so a species may be present but not yet recorded there.

Miscellaneous

Bloom season*
(may choose multiples) any January February March April May June July August September October November December * Does not apply to all trees/shrubs

origin any native only non-native only

Status any State Endangered State Threatened State Special Concern Federally Endangered Federally Threatened Prohibited or Restricted species (PR) Noxious Weed (NX) Early Detection weed, MDA (ED) Early Detection weed, Ramsey County (EDR) Weedy (W) Invasive - ERADICATE! (I)