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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
Prairie Onion 9
Allium stellatum
Purple giant hyssop 10
Agastache scrophulariifolia
Nodding Onion 11
Allium cernuum
Small White Leek 12
Allium tricoccum
Common Ragweed 13
Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Giant Ragweed 14
Ambrosia trifida
Sharp-lobed Hepatica
Anemone acutiloba
Leadplant 15
Amorpha canescens
Meadow Anemone 16
Anemone canadensis
Big Bluestem 5
Andropogon gerardii
Thimbleweed 17
Anemone cylindrica
Jack-in-the-Pulpit 18
Arisaema triphyllum
Lesser Burdock 19
Arctium minus
Canada Wild Ginger 20
Asarum canadense
Common Milkweed 21
Asclepias syriaca
Butterfly Milkweed 15
Asclepias tuberosa
Whorled Milkweed 15
Asclepias verticillata
Hemp Dogbane 22
Apocynum cannabinum
Wild Columbine 23
Aquilegia canadensis
Hoary Alyssum 24
Berteroa incana
Swamp Milkweed 25
Asclepias incarnata
Sideoats Grama 26
Bouteloua curtipendula
White Wild Indigo
Baptisia alba
American yellowrocket 27
Barbarea orthoceras
Marsh-marigold 28
Caltha palustris
Hedge Bindweed 29
Calystegia sepium
American Bellflower 30
Campanula americana
Field Chickweed 31
Cerastium arvense
Shepherd's Purse 32
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Chicory 33
Cichorium intybus
Enchanter's-Nightshade 34
Circaea lutetiana
Bull Thistle 35
Cirsium vulgare
Virgin's Bower 36
Clematis virginiana
Virginia Spring Beauty 37
Claytonia virginica
White Prairie Clover 38
Dalea candida
Queen Anne's Lace 10
Daucus carota
Wild Yam 39
Dioscorea villosa
Creeping Thistle 40
Cirsium arvense
Field Thistle 15
Cirsium discolor
Purple Coneflower 41
Echinacea purpurea
Small White Lady's-slipper 15
Cypripedium candidum
Dutchman's Breeches 42
Dicentra cucullaria
Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
False Rue Anemone 43
Enemion biternatum
Amethyst Shooting Star 44
Dodecatheon amethystinum
Rattlesnake Master 29
Eryngium yuccifolium
Fleabanes 45
Erigeron
Erythronium propullans
White Fawnlily 46
Erythronium albidum
Flat-topped Goldenrod 12
Euthamia graminifolia
Catchweed Bedstraw 47
Galium aparine
Great Blanket-flower 48
Gaillardia aristata
Closed Bottle Gentian 49
Gentiana andrewsii
Yellow Avens
Geum aleppicum
White Avens 12
Geum canadense
Ground Ivy 47
Glechoma hederacea
Dames Rocket 50
Hesperis matronalis
Joe-Pye weed 51
Eutrochium
Virginia Strawberry 52
Fragaria virginiana
Spotted St. John's Wort 53
Hypericum punctatum
common St John's wort 54
Hypericum perforatum
northern bedstraw 55
Galium boreale
Yellow Star Grass 14
Hypoxis hirsuta
Spotted Touch-Me-Not 56
Impatiens capensis
Wood Nettle 57
Laportea canadensis
Motherwort
Leonurus cardiaca
Round-headed Bush Clover 58
Lespedeza capitata
Rough Blazing Star 15
Liatris aspera
Prairie Blazing Star 29
Liatris pycnostachya
Virginia Waterleaf 59
Hydrophyllum virginianum
Common Bird's-foot Trefoil 60
Lotus corniculatus
mountain fly-honeysuckle
Lonicera villosa
False Solomon's Seal 56
Maianthemum racemosum
Blue Flag 61
Iris versicolor
Pineapple Weed 62
Matricaria discoidea
Ox-eye Daisy 63
Leucanthemum vulgare
Common Toadflax 12
Linaria vulgaris
Wild Lupine 29
Lupinus perennis
white sweet clover 54
Melilotus albus
Virginia Bluebells 61
Mertensia virginica
Yellow Sweet Clover 54
Melilotus officinalis
Wild Bergamot 29
Monarda fistulosa
Corn Mint 64
Mentha arvensis
Allegheny monkeyflower 7
Mimulus ringens
Catnip 65
Nepeta cataria
Common Evening-Primrose 15
Oenothera biennis
Aniseroot 12
Osmorhiza longistylis
hairy sweet cicely 66
Osmorhiza claytonii
American hophornbeam 67
Ostrya virginiana
Yellow Woodsorrel 56
Oxalis stricta
Wild Parsnip 29
Pastinaca sativa
White-flower Beardtongue 5
Penstemon albidus

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