River Bend Nature Center (MN) Plant and Animal Guide

Plants and animals you might see at River Bend Nature Center in Faribault, Minnesota. www.rbnc.org

All 228

Common Selfheal ¹
Prunella vulgaris

Box Elder ²
Acer negundo

red baneberry ³
Actaea rubra

Sugar Maple ⁴
Acer saccharum

White Sagebrush ⁵
Artemisia ludoviciana

Silver Maple ⁶
Acer saccharinum

common yarrow ⁷
Achillea millefolium

northern maidenhair fern ⁸
Adiantum pedatum

Garlic Mustard ⁹
Alliaria petiolata

Prairie Onion ¹⁰
Allium stellatum

Purple giant hyssop ¹¹
Agastache scrophulariifolia

Nodding Onion ¹²
Allium cernuum

Small White Leek ¹³
Allium tricoccum

Common Ragweed ¹⁴
Ambrosia artemisiifolia

Giant Ragweed ¹⁵
Ambrosia trifida

Sharp-lobed Hepatica
Anemone acutiloba

Leadplant ¹⁶
Amorpha canescens

Meadow Anemone ¹⁷
Anemone canadensis

Big Bluestem ⁵
Andropogon gerardii

Thimbleweed ¹⁸
Anemone cylindrica

Jack-in-the-Pulpit ¹⁹
Arisaema triphyllum

Lesser Burdock ²⁰
Arctium minus

Canada Wild Ginger ²¹
Asarum canadense

Common Milkweed ²²
Asclepias syriaca

Butterfly Milkweed ¹⁶
Asclepias tuberosa

Whorled Milkweed ¹⁶
Asclepias verticillata

Hemp Dogbane ²³
Apocynum cannabinum

Wild Columbine ²⁴
Aquilegia canadensis

Hoary Alyssum ²⁵
Berteroa incana

Swamp Milkweed ²⁶
Asclepias incarnata

Sideoats Grama ²⁷
Bouteloua curtipendula

White Wild Indigo
Baptisia alba

American yellowrocket ²⁸
Barbarea orthoceras

Marsh-marigold ²⁹
Caltha palustris

Hedge Bindweed ³⁰
Calystegia sepium

American Bellflower ³¹
Campanula americana

Field Chickweed ³²
Cerastium arvense

Shepherd's Purse ³³
Capsella bursa-pastoris

Chicory ³⁴
Cichorium intybus

Enchanter's-Nightshade ³⁵
Circaea lutetiana

Bull Thistle ³⁶
Cirsium vulgare

Virgin's Bower ³⁷
Clematis virginiana

Virginia Spring Beauty ³⁸
Claytonia virginica

White Prairie Clover ³⁹
Dalea candida

Queen Anne's Lace ¹¹
Daucus carota

Wild Yam ⁴⁰
Dioscorea villosa

Creeping Thistle ⁴¹
Cirsium arvense

Field Thistle ¹⁶
Cirsium discolor

Purple Coneflower ⁴²
Echinacea purpurea

Small White Lady's-slipper ¹⁶
Cypripedium candidum

Dutchman's Breeches ⁴³
Dicentra cucullaria

Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea

False Rue Anemone ⁴⁴
Enemion biternatum

Amethyst Shooting Star ⁴⁵
Dodecatheon amethystinum

Rattlesnake Master ³⁰
Eryngium yuccifolium

Fleabanes ⁴⁶
Erigeron

Erythronium propullans

White Fawnlily ⁴⁷
Erythronium albidum

Flat-topped Goldenrod ¹³
Euthamia graminifolia

Catchweed Bedstraw ⁴⁸
Galium aparine

Great Blanket-flower ⁴⁹
Gaillardia aristata

Closed Bottle Gentian ⁵⁰
Gentiana andrewsii

Yellow Avens
Geum aleppicum

White Avens ¹³
Geum canadense

Ground Ivy ⁴⁸
Glechoma hederacea

Field Horsetail ⁵¹
Equisetum arvense

Dames Rocket ⁵²
Hesperis matronalis

Joe-Pye weed ⁵³
Eutrochium

Virginia Strawberry ⁵⁴
Fragaria virginiana

Spotted St. John's Wort ⁵⁵
Hypericum punctatum

common St John's wort ⁵⁶
Hypericum perforatum

northern bedstraw ⁵⁷
Galium boreale

Yellow Star Grass ¹⁵
Hypoxis hirsuta

Spotted Touch-Me-Not ⁵⁸
Impatiens capensis

Wood Nettle ⁵⁹
Laportea canadensis

Motherwort
Leonurus cardiaca

Round-headed Bush Clover ⁶⁰
Lespedeza capitata

Rough Blazing Star ¹⁶
Liatris aspera

Prairie Blazing Star ³⁰
Liatris pycnostachya

Virginia Waterleaf ⁶¹
Hydrophyllum virginianum

Common Bird's-foot Trefoil ⁶²
Lotus corniculatus

mountain fly-honeysuckle
Lonicera villosa

False Solomon's Seal ⁵⁸
Maianthemum racemosum

Blue Flag ⁶³
Iris versicolor

Pineapple Weed ⁶⁴
Matricaria discoidea

Ox-eye Daisy ⁶⁵
Leucanthemum vulgare

Common Toadflax ¹³
Linaria vulgaris

Wild Lupine ³⁰
Lupinus perennis

white sweet clover ⁵⁶
Melilotus albus

Virginia Bluebells ⁶³
Mertensia virginica

Yellow Sweet Clover ⁵⁶
Melilotus officinalis

Wild Bergamot ³⁰
Monarda fistulosa

Corn Mint ⁶⁶
Mentha arvensis

Allegheny monkeyflower ⁷
Mimulus ringens

Catnip ⁶⁷
Nepeta cataria

Common Evening-Primrose ¹⁶
Oenothera biennis

Aniseroot ¹³
Osmorhiza longistylis

hairy sweet cicely ⁶⁸
Osmorhiza claytonii

American hophornbeam ⁶⁹
Ostrya virginiana

Yellow Woodsorrel ⁵⁸
Oxalis stricta

Edited by Jill Engle and abrossard

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