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Itasca State Park Biodiversity

A guide to the Biota of Itasca State Park, Minnesota

compiled by Janet Rith-Najarian

Half-black Bumble Bee 1
Bombus vagans
Western Honey Bee 2
Apis mellifera
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant 3
Camponotus pennsylvanicus
Fifteen-spotted Lady Beetle 4
Anatis labiculata
Asian Lady Beetle 5
Harmonia axyridis
Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle 6
Chilocorus stigma
Winter Firefly 7
Ellychnia corrusca
End Band Net-winged Beetle 7
Calopteron terminale
American Carrion Beetle 8
Necrophila americana
Widow Skimmer 9
Libellula luctuosa
Four-spotted Chaser 10
Libellula quadrimaculata
Calico Pennant 11
Celithemis elisa
Variegated Meadowhawk 12
Sympetrum corruptum
White-faced Meadowhawk 13
Sympetrum obtrusum
Band-winged Meadowhawk 14
Sympetrum semicinctum
Chalk-fronted Corporal 15
Ladona julia
Blue Dasher 15
Pachydiplax longipennis
Common Whitetail 16
Plathemis lydia
Horned Clubtail
Arigomphus cornutus
Lilypad Clubtail 15
Arigomphus furcifer
Common Green Darner 17
Anax junius
American Emerald 18
Cordulia shurtleffii
Tule Bluet 19
Enallagma carunculatum
Eastern Forktail 19
Ischnura verticalis
River Jewelwing 20
Calopteryx aequabilis
Spotted Spreadwing 14
Lestes congener
Eastern Calligrapher 21
Toxomerus geminatus
Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly 19
Eristalis stipator
field horsetail 22
Equisetum arvense
water horsetail 23
Equisetum fluviatile
dwarf horsetail 24
Equisetum scirpoides
rattlesnake fern 25
Botrypus virginianus
bulblet fern 26
Cystopteris bulbifera
northern oak fern 10
Gymnocarpium dryopteris
common bracken 27
Pteridium aquilinum
ostrich fern 28
Matteuccia struthiopteris
northern whitecedar 29
Thuja occidentalis
eastern white pine 30
Pinus strobus
Jack pine 31
Pinus banksiana
red pine 32
Pinus resinosa
balsam fir 33
Abies balsamea
tamarack 34
Larix laricina
white spruce 35
Picea glauca
Alsike clover 36
Trifolium hybridum
red clover 37
Trifolium pratense
white clover 38
Trifolium repens
yellow sweetclover 39
Melilotus officinalis
bird's-foot trefoil 40
Lotus corniculatus
pointed-leaved tick-trefoil 41
Hylodesmum glutinosum
pale vetchling 42
Lathyrus ochroleucus
veiny pea 43
Lathyrus venosus
American vetch 44
Vicia americana
Canadian milkvetch 45
Astragalus canadensis
purple prairie clover 46
Dalea purpurea
Siberian peashrub 47
Caragana arborescens
Wild strawberry 48
Fragaria vesca
Virginia strawberry 49
Fragaria virginiana
silverleaf cinquefoil 50
Potentilla argentea
common agrimony 51
Agrimonia gryposepala
chokecherry 47
Prunus virginiana
European raspberry 52
Rubus idaeus
prairie rose 53
Rosa arkansana
Yellow Avens 54
Geum aleppicum
prairie smoke 55
Geum triflorum
American mountain ash 47
Sorbus americana
Prairie Crab Apple 19
Malus ioensis
stinging nettle 56
Urtica dioica
common hops 57
Humulus lupulus
Indian pipe 7
Monotropa uniflora
bog wintergreen 58
Pyrola asarifolia
green-flowered wintergreen 59
Pyrola chlorantha
lowbush blueberry 60
Vaccinium angustifolium
common jewelweed 61
Impatiens capensis
starflower 62
Lysimachia borealis
fringed loosestrife 49
Lysimachia ciliata
Tufted Loosestrife 63
Lysimachia thyrsiflora
prairie phlox 64
Phlox pilosa
downy phlox 23
Phlox pilosa fulgida
alternate-leaved dogwood 19
Cornus alternifolia
Canadian bunchberry 65
Cornus canadensis
swamp milkweed 66
Asclepias incarnata
common milkweed 67
Asclepias syriaca
spreading dogbane 7
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Northern Bedstraw 68
Galium boreale
closed bottle gentian 69
Gentiana andrewsii
water smartweed 70
Persicaria amphibia
white campion 71
Silene latifolia
marsh grass-of-Parnassus 72
Parnassia palustris
American bittersweet 73
Celastrus scandens
creeping thistle 74
Cirsium arvense
swamp thistle 75
Cirsium muticum
bull thistle 76
Cirsium vulgare
white rattlesnakeroot 77
Nabalus albus
common dandelion 78
Taraxacum officinale
meadow hawkweed 79
Pilosella caespitosa
spotted Joe-Pye weed 80
Eutrochium maculatum
rough blazing star 81
Liatris aspera
pearly everlasting 82
Anaphalis margaritacea
oxeye daisy 83
Leucanthemum vulgare
tansy 47
Tanacetum vulgare

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