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Plants of the St. Olaf Natural Lands

A guide to plants in the St. Olaf Natural Lands and the St. Olaf College campus

bird's-foot trefoil 1
Lotus corniculatus
wild geranium 2
Geranium maculatum
pale jewelweed 3
Impatiens pallida
common milkweed 4
Asclepias syriaca
butterfly milkweed 5
Asclepias tuberosa
hoary puccoon 6
Lithospermum canescens
wild cucumber 7
Echinocystis lobata
Catnip 2
Nepeta cataria
American plum 8
Prunus americana
prairie blazing star 9
Liatris pycnostachya
red columbine 10
Aquilegia canadensis
red baneberry 11
Actaea rubra
Virginia creeper 12
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
bloodroot 13
Sanguinaria canadensis
Dutchman's breeches 14
Dicentra cucullaria
sweet cicely 15
Myrrhis odorata
sugar maple 16
Acer saccharum
common yarrow 17
Achillea millefolium
field bindweed 18
Convolvulus arvensis
catchweed bedstraw 19
Galium aparine
American vetch 20
Vicia americana
American elm 21
Ulmus americana
common buckthorn 22
Rhamnus cathartica
black cherry 23
Prunus serotina
chokecherry 24
Prunus virginiana
trembling aspen 25
Populus tremuloides
basswood 26
Tilia americana
henbit deadnettle 27
Lamium amplexicaule
bittersweet nightshade 28
Solanum dulcamara
ground-ivy 29
Glechoma hederacea
guelder-rose 30
Viburnum opulus
garlic mustard 31
Alliaria petiolata
shepherd's-purse 32
Capsella bursa-pastoris
common motherwort 33
Leonurus cardiaca
Canadian wild ginger 34
Asarum canadense
Yellow Sweetclover 35
Melilotus officinalis
red-berried elder 36
Sambucus racemosa
silky dogwood 37
Cornus amomum
hemp dogbane 38
Apocynum cannabinum
Virginia bluebells 39
Mertensia virginica
wild parsnip 40
Pastinaca sativa
bastard toadflax 41
Comandra umbellata
creeping thistle 42
Cirsium arvense
cut-leaved toothwort 43
Cardamine concatenata
field thistle 44
Cirsium discolor
fringed loosestrife 24
Lysimachia ciliata
black-eyed Susan 45
Rudbeckia hirta
virgin's-bower 46
Clematis virginiana
hoary vervain 47
Verbena stricta
purple prairie clover 48
Dalea purpurea
Deptford pink 49
Dianthus armeria
musk thistle 50
Carduus nutans
Wild Four o'Clock 24
Mirabilis nyctaginea
lanceleaf figwort 51
Scrophularia lanceolata
white campion 52
Silene latifolia
field penny-cress 53
Thlaspi arvense
large hop clover 54
Trifolium aureum
Sundial Lupine 55
Lupinus perennis
blue phlox 56
Phlox divaricata
Virginia waterleaf 24
Hydrophyllum virginianum
false rue anemone 57
Enemion biternatum
flowering spurge 58
Euphorbia corollata
common blue violet 59
Viola sororia
downy yellow violet 60
Viola pubescens
Missouri Gooseberry 61
Ribes missouriense
golden Alexander 9
Zizia aurea
blue cohosh 62
Caulophyllum thalictroides
wild bergamot 63
Monarda fistulosa
Creeping Bellflower 22
Campanula rapunculoides
grey-headed coneflower 64
Ratibida pinnata
wood nettle 62
Laportea canadensis
closed bottle gentian 65
Gentiana andrewsii
compass plant 64
Silphium laciniatum
round-headed bush clover 47
Lespedeza capitata
American Black Currant 66
Ribes americanum
small-flowered buttercup 67
Ranunculus abortivus
white wild indigo 68
Baptisia alba
prairie phlox 64
Phlox pilosa
purple crownvetch 69
Securigera varia
partridge pea 70
Chamaecrista fasciculata
rattlesnake master 71
Eryngium yuccifolium
showy tick-trefoil 72
Desmodium canadense
purple-stemmed angelica 72
Angelica atropurpurea
rough blazing star 73
Liatris aspera
false sunflower 9
Heliopsis helianthoides
flat-topped goldenrod 74
Euthamia graminifolia
Culver's root 75
Veronicastrum virginicum
hairy white oldfield aster 76
Symphyotrichum pilosum
anise hyssop 48
Agastache foeniculum
leadplant 77
Amorpha canescens
Great St. John's Wort 78
Hypericum ascyron
veiny pea 79
Lathyrus venosus
sharp-lobed hepatica 2
Hepatica acutiloba
American Highbush Cranberry 72
Viburnum opulus americanum
meadow anemone 80
Anemonastrum canadense
wood anemone 81
Anemonoides quinquefolia

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