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

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
Garlic Mustard 8
Alliaria petiolata
Purple giant hyssop 9
Agastache scrophulariifolia
Common Ragweed 10
Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Giant Ragweed 11
Ambrosia trifida
Sharp-lobed Hepatica
Anemone acutiloba
Leadplant 12
Amorpha canescens
Meadow Anemone 13
Anemone canadensis
Thimbleweed 14
Anemone cylindrica
Lesser Burdock 15
Arctium minus
Canada Wild Ginger 16
Asarum canadense
Common Milkweed 17
Asclepias syriaca
Butterfly Milkweed 12
Asclepias tuberosa
Whorled Milkweed 12
Asclepias verticillata
Hemp Dogbane 18
Apocynum cannabinum
Wild Columbine 19
Aquilegia canadensis
Hoary Alyssum 20
Berteroa incana
Swamp Milkweed 21
Asclepias incarnata
White Wild Indigo
Baptisia alba
American yellowrocket 22
Barbarea orthoceras
Marsh-marigold 23
Caltha palustris
Hedge Bindweed 24
Calystegia sepium
American Bellflower 25
Campanula americana
Field Chickweed 26
Cerastium arvense
Shepherd's Purse 27
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Chicory 28
Cichorium intybus
Enchanter's-Nightshade 29
Circaea lutetiana
Bull Thistle 30
Cirsium vulgare
Virgin's Bower 31
Clematis virginiana
Virginia Spring Beauty 32
Claytonia virginica
White Prairie Clover 33
Dalea candida
Queen Anne's Lace 9
Daucus carota
Creeping Thistle 34
Cirsium arvense
Field Thistle 12
Cirsium discolor
Purple Coneflower 35
Echinacea purpurea
Dutchman's Breeches 36
Dicentra cucullaria
Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
False Rue Anemone 37
Enemion biternatum
Amethyst Shooting Star 38
Dodecatheon amethystinum
Rattlesnake Master 24
Eryngium yuccifolium
Fleabanes 39
Erigeron
Flat-topped Goldenrod 40
Euthamia graminifolia
Catchweed Bedstraw 41
Galium aparine
Great Blanket-flower 42
Gaillardia aristata
Closed Bottle Gentian 43
Gentiana andrewsii
Yellow Avens
Geum aleppicum
White Avens 40
Geum canadense
Ground Ivy 41
Glechoma hederacea
Dames Rocket 44
Hesperis matronalis
Joe-Pye weed 45
Eutrochium
Virginia Strawberry 46
Fragaria virginiana
Spotted St. John's Wort 47
Hypericum punctatum
common St John's wort 48
Hypericum perforatum
northern bedstraw 49
Galium boreale
Spotted Touch-Me-Not 50
Impatiens capensis
Wood Nettle 51
Laportea canadensis
Motherwort
Leonurus cardiaca
Round-headed Bush Clover 52
Lespedeza capitata
Rough Blazing Star 12
Liatris aspera
Prairie Blazing Star 24
Liatris pycnostachya
Virginia Waterleaf 53
Hydrophyllum virginianum
Common Bird's-foot Trefoil 54
Lotus corniculatus
mountain fly-honeysuckle
Lonicera villosa
Pineapple Weed 55
Matricaria discoidea
Ox-eye Daisy 56
Leucanthemum vulgare
Common Toadflax 40
Linaria vulgaris
Wild Lupine 24
Lupinus perennis
white sweet clover 48
Melilotus albus
Virginia Bluebells 57
Mertensia virginica
Yellow Sweet Clover 48
Melilotus officinalis
Wild Bergamot 24
Monarda fistulosa
Corn Mint 58
Mentha arvensis
Allegheny monkeyflower 7
Mimulus ringens
Catnip 59
Nepeta cataria
Common Evening-Primrose 12
Oenothera biennis
Aniseroot 40
Osmorhiza longistylis
hairy sweet cicely 60
Osmorhiza claytonii
American hophornbeam 61
Ostrya virginiana
Yellow Woodsorrel 50
Oxalis stricta
Wild Parsnip 24
Pastinaca sativa
White-flower Beardtongue 5
Penstemon albidus
Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
Jumpseed 32
Persicaria virginiana
Obedient Plant 12
Physostegia virginiana
Blue Phlox 16
Phlox divaricata
Rough Cinquefoil 56
Potentilla norvegica
Mayapple 62
Podophyllum peltatum
bristly buttercup 40
Ranunculus hispidus
common purslane 63
Portulaca oleracea
Yellow Coneflower 64
Ratibida pinnata
tall cinquefoil 24
Drymocallis arguta
Common Buckthorn 65
Rhamnus cathartica
Common Selfheal 1
Prunella vulgaris
Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum

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