Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minne ...
by common name, following
Minnesota DNR
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or Minnesota DNR, is the agency of the U.S. state of Minnesota charged with conserving and managing the state's natural resources. The agency maintains areas such as state parks, state forests, re ...
conventions. Where several species of plants share part of a common name, they have been grouped together under that name; this is for indexing purposes and does not always indicate a taxonomic relationship.
Canada anemone
''Anemonastrum canadense'', synonym ''Anemone canadensis'', the Canada anemone, round-headed anemone, round-leaf thimbleweed, meadow anemone, windflower, or crowfoot, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. It i ...
Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors ...
Heath aster Heath aster is a common name for several plants native to North America and may refer to:
*''Symphyotrichum ericoides''
*''Symphyotrichum pilosum
(formerly ''Aster pilosus'') is a perennial, herbaceous, flowering plant in the Asteraceae f ...
New England aster
(formerly ''Aster novae-angliae'') is a species of flowering plant in the aster family ( Asteraceae) native to central and eastern North America. Commonly known as , , or , it is a perennial, herbaceous plant usually between tall and ...
(''Symphyotrichum novae-angliae'')
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New England aster
(formerly ''Aster novae-angliae'') is a species of flowering plant in the aster family ( Asteraceae) native to central and eastern North America. Commonly known as , , or , it is a perennial, herbaceous plant usually between tall and ...
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Heath aster Heath aster is a common name for several plants native to North America and may refer to:
*''Symphyotrichum ericoides''
*''Symphyotrichum pilosum
(formerly ''Aster pilosus'') is a perennial, herbaceous, flowering plant in the Asteraceae f ...
Baneberries
''Actaea'', commonly called baneberry, bugbane and cohosh, is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae, native to subtropical, temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America.
Taxonomy
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Red baneberry
''Actaea rubra'', the red baneberry or chinaberry, is a poisonous herbaceous flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to North America.
Description
It is a perennial herb that grows tall.
The leaves are coarsely toothed with deeply ...
(''Actaea rubra'')
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White baneberry
''Actaea pachypoda'', the white baneberry or doll's-eyes, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Actaea'', of the family Ranunculaceae.
The plant is native to eastern North America, in eastern Canada, and the Midwestern and Eastern Unit ...
Large-flowered bellwort
''Uvularia grandiflora'', the large-flowered bellwort or merrybells, is a species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae, native to eastern and central North America.
Description
Growing to tall by broad, it is a rhizomatous herba ...
Blazing stars
Blazing or blazin' can refer to;
* Trail blazing, practice of marking outdoor pathways.
* A technique for changing the energy distribution of dispersed light from a diffraction grating by altering the shape of the slits.
* A slang term for smok ...
Northern blue flag
''Iris versicolor'' is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blueflag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag, and poison flag, plus other variations of these names, and in Britain and Ireland as purple iris.
It is a species of '' Iris ...
(''Iris versicolor'')
** Southern blue flag (''Iris virginica'' var. ''shrevei'')
* Bunchberry (''Cornus canadensis'')
* Butterflyweed (''Asclepias tuberosa'' var. ''interior'')
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Canada mayflower
''Maianthemum canadense'' (Canadian may-lily, Canada mayflower, false lily-of-the-valley, Canadian lily-of-the-valley, wild lily-of-the-valley,, p.105 two-leaved Solomon's seal)
is an understory perennial flowering plant, native to Canada and the ...
Gray-headed coneflower
''Ratibida pinnata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names pinnate prairie coneflower, gray-head coneflower, yellow coneflower, and prairie coneflower. It is native to the central and eastern United St ...
Spotted coralroot
''Corallorhiza maculata'', or spotted coralroot, is a North American coralroot orchid. It has three varieties: ''C. maculata var. occidentalis'' (western spotted coralroot), ''C. maculata var. maculata'' (eastern spotted coralroot or summer cor ...
Culver's root
''Veronicastrum virginicum'', or Culver's root, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family, Plantaginaceae. It is native to the eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. Growing to tall by broad, it is an erect herbaceous pere ...
Evening primroses
''Oenothera'' is a genus of about 145 species of herbaceous flowering plants native to the Americas. It is the type genus of the family Onagraceae. Common names include evening primrose, suncups, and sundrops. They are not closely related to ...
False Solomon's Seal
''Maianthemum racemosum'', the treacleberry, feathery false lily of the valley, false Solomon's seal, Solomon's plume or false spikenard, is a species of flowering plant native to North America. It is a common, widespread plant with numerous com ...
Giant hyssop
''Agastache'' () is a genus of aromatic flowering herbaceous perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae. It contains 22 species, mainly native to North America, one species native to eastern Asia. The common names of the species are a variet ...
Canada goldenrod
''Solidago canadensis'', known as Canada goldenrod or Canadian goldenrod, is an herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae. It is native to northeastern and north-central North America and often forms colonies of upright growing plants, ...
Gumweed
''Grindelia'' (gumweed) is a genus of plants native to the Americas belonging to the family Asteraceae. The genus was named for Latvian botanist David Hieronymus Grindel, 1776–1836.
They are herbaceous plants or subshrubs with annual, biennia ...
Hepatica
''Hepatica'' (hepatica, liverleaf, or liverwort) is a genus of herbaceous perennials in the buttercup family, native to central and northern Europe, Asia and eastern North America. Some botanists include ''Hepatica'' within a wider inter ...
Indian pipe
''Monotropa uniflora'', also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to temperate regions of Asia, North America, and northern South America, but with large gaps between areas. The plant is somet ...
Joe pye weed
''Eutrochium'' is a North American genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds. They are native to the United States and Canada, and have non-dissected foliage and pigmented flow ...
Leadplant
''Amorpha canescens'', known as leadplant, downy indigo bush, prairie shoestring, or buffalo bellows, is a small, perennial semi-shrub in the pea family (Fabaceae), native to North America. It has very small purple flowers with yellow stamens whi ...
Milk vetch
''Astragalus'' is a large genus of over 3,000 species of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae and the subfamily Faboideae. It is the largest genus of plants in terms of described species. The genus is native to temp ...
Common milkweed
''Asclepias syriaca'', commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Moun ...
Showy milkweed
''Asclepias speciosa'' is a milky-sapped perennial plant in the dogbane family ( Apocynaceae), known commonly as the showy milkweed and is found in the western half of North America.
Description
This flowering plant is a hairy, erect perenni ...
Miterwort
''Mitella'' is a genus of flowering plants known as miterworts or bishop's caps. ''Mitella'' species are native to temperate and arctic North America and Asia.
Description
''Mitella'' includes perennial plant, perennials growing from a scaly rhi ...
Orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.
Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering ...
Western prairie fringed orchid
''Platanthera praeclara'', known as the western prairie fringed orchid and the Great Plains white fringed orchid, is a rare and threatened species of orchid native to North America.
Distribution
Historically, ''Platanthera praeclara'' was found ...
(''Platanthera praeclara''; threatened)
* Ox-eye or early sunflower (''Heliopsis helianthoides'' var. ''scabra'')
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Prairie clover
''Dalea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as prairie clover or indigo bush. Its name honors English apothecary Samuel Dale (1659–1739). They are native to the Western he ...
Rose
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can b ...
Prickly rose
''Rosa acicularis'' is a flowering plant in the Rosaceae family. It is commonly known as the prickly wild rose, prickly rose, bristly rose, wild rose or Arctic rose. It is a species of wild rose with a Holarctic distribution in northern regions o ...
(''Rosa acicularis'')
** Smooth wild rose (''Rosa blanda'')
** Wood's rose (''Rosa woodsii'' var. ''woodsii'')
Spiderwort
''Tradescantia'' () is a genus of 85 species of herbaceous perennial wildflowers in the family Commelinaceae, native to the Americas from southern Canada to northern Argentina, including the West Indies. Members of the genus are known by many co ...
Strawberries
The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; ''Fragaria × ananassa'') is a widely grown Hybrid (biology), hybrid species of the genus ''Fragaria'', collectively known as the strawberries, which are cultivated worldwide for their fruit. The f ...
Giant sunflower
In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: ''gigas'', cognate giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word ''giant'' is first attested in 1297 ...
Maximilian's sunflower
''Helianthus maximiliani'' is a North American species of sunflower known by the common name Maximilian sunflower.
This sunflower is named for Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, who encountered it on his travels in North America.
''Helianthus ...
Trilliums
''Trillium'' (trillium, wakerobin, toadshade, tri flower, birthroot, birthwort, and sometimes "wood lily") is a genus of about fifty flowering plant species in the family Melanthiaceae. ''Trillium'' species are native to temperate regions of No ...
Common blue violet
''Viola sororia'', known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant that is native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly bl ...
(''Viola sororia'')
** Dog violet (''Viola conspersa'')
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Great-spurred violet
''Viola selkirkii'' is a species of violet known by the common names Selkirk's violet and great-spur violet. It is native throughout the Northern Hemisphere, its distribution circumboreal.Kidney-leaved violet (''Viola renifolia'')
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Marsh violet
''Viola palustris'' (marsh violet, or alpine marsh violet) is a perennial forb of the genus '' Viola''. It inhabits moist meadows, marshes, and stream banks in northern parts of North America and Eurasia. The species epithet ''palustris'' is L ...
Sand violet
''Viola adunca'' is a species of violet known by the common names hookedspur violet, early blue violet, sand violet, and western dog violet. It is native to meadows and forests of western North America, Canada, and the northern contiguous United ...
Wintergreen
Wintergreen is a group of aromatic plants. The term "wintergreen" once commonly referred to plants that remain green (continue photosynthesis) throughout the winter. The term "evergreen" is now more commonly used for this characteristic.
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Wood betony Wood betony is the common name for several plants and may refer to:
*'' Pedicularis canadensis'' in the family Orobanchaceae
*''Betonica officinalis,'' formerly known as ''Stachys officinalis,'' in the family Lamiaceae
The Lamiaceae ( )
or La ...
(''Pedicularis canadensis'')
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Wood lily
''Lilium philadelphicum'', also known as the wood lily, Philadelphia lily, prairie lily, or western red lily, is a perennial species of lily native to North America.
Distribution
The plant is widely distributed in much of Canada from British Co ...
(''Lilium philadelphicum'' var. ''andinum'')
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Wormwood
Wormwood may refer to:
Biology
* Several plants of the genus ''Artemisia'':
** ''Artemisia abrotanum'', southern wormwood
** '' Artemisia absinthium'', common wormwood, grande wormwood or absinthe wormwood
** ''Artemisia annua'', sweet wormwood o ...