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Minnesota Wet Prairies

List of plants found in wet prairies throughout Minnesota

Wild Garlic 1
Allium canadense
Indian hemp 2
Apocynum cannabinum
Big Bluestem 3
Andropogon gerardii
Canada Mayflower 4
Anemone canadensis
Swamp Milkweed 5
Asclepias incarnata
Common Milkweed 6
Asclepias syriaca
Crooked-stemmed Aster 7
Symphyotrichum prenanthoides
Marsh-marigold 8
Caltha palustris
New England aster 9
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Panicled Aster 10
Asclepias simplex
Blue joint Grass 3
Calamagrostis canadensis
Bicknell's sedge 11
Carex bicknellii
Wooly Sedge 11
Carex lanuginosa
Small White Lady's Slipper 12
Cypripedium candidum
White Turtlehead 13
Chelone glabra
Common Horsetail 14
Equisetum arvense
Water Hemlock 15
Cicuta maculata
Showy Tick-Trefoil 5
Desmodium canadense
Midland Shooting Star 12
Dodecatheon meadia
Boneset 16
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Wild Strawberry 17
Fragaria virginiana
Joe-Pye weed 18
Eutrochium
Queen of the Prairie 19
Filipendula rubra
Northern Bedstraw 11
Galium boreale
Bottle Gentian 20
Gentiana andrewsii
Common Sneezeweed 21
Helenium autumnale
Sawtooth sunflower 11
Helianthus grosseserratus
Blue Flag 22
Iris versicolor
Yellow stargrass 19
Hypoxis hirsuta
Wild Blue Flag iris 11
Iris virginica shrevei
Path Rush 3
Juncus tenuis
Showy Vetchling 11
Lathyrus venosus
Marsh Blazing Star 23
Liatris spicata
Prairie blazing star 5
Liatris pycnostachya
Michigan lily 11
Lilium michiganense
Wood Lily 24
Lilium philadelphicum
Cardinal flower 25
Lobelia cardinalis
Great Blue Lobelia 24
Lobelia siphilitica
Pale Spiked Lobelia 12
Lobelia spicata
Prairie Loose strife 11
Lysimachia quadriflora
Wild Bergamot 5
Monarda fistulosa
Mat Muhlygrass 3
Muhlenbergia richardsonis
Prairie Sundrops 11
Oenothera pilosella
Cowbane 11
Oxypolis rigidior
Switch Grass 11
Panicum virgatum
Marsh Betony 1
Pedicularis lanceolata
Prairie Phlox 12
Phlox pilosa
False Dragonhead 12
Physostegia virginiana
Virginia mountain mint 11
Pycnanthemum virginianum
Bristly Buttercup 11
Ranunculus pensylvanicus
Yellow Coneflower 26
Ratibida pinnata
Black-eyed-Susan 27
Rudbeckia hirta
Sweet Coneflower 11
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
Swamp Saxifrage 24
Micranthes pensylvanica
Riddell's goldenrod 10
Solidago riddellii
soft-stem bulrush 28
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
Prairie Dock 12
Silphium terebinthinaceum
Prairie Cord Grass 29
Spartina pectinata
Nodding Ladies' Tresses 30
Spiranthes cernua
Tall Meadow Rue 5
Thalictrum dasycarpum
Steeple Bush 31
Spiraea tomentosa
Prairie Spiderwort 11
Tradescantia bracteata
Ohio Spiderwort 5
Tradescantia ohiensis
Blue Vervain 10
Verbena hastata
Ironweed 11
Vernonia fasciculata
Culver's root 11
Veronicastrum virginicum
Blue Marsh Violet 32
Viola nephrophylla
Heart leaved Golden Alexander 11
Zizia aptera
Golden Alexender 24
Zizia aurea

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