Larkspur Plant Resources

A Reference for the Minnesota Region

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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Plant Profile: Virginia Waterleaf

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Hydrophyllum virginianum Virginia waterleaf flowers in May and early June with purple to almost white flowers. Early in the season, the leav...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Where to Find Remnant and Restored Prairies in Minnesota

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A restored prairie at Elm Creek Park Reserve, Maple Grove, MN. On a windy summer day, a Minnesota prairie looks like an ocean. The tallest g...
Friday, May 9, 2025

Spring ID of Bittersweet Vines

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American bittersweet ( Celastrus scandens ) and invasive round leaf bittersweet ( C. orbiculatus ) are like identical twins: Only subtle dif...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Plant Profile: Sharp-lobed Hepatica

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Sharp-lobed hepatica ( Anemone acutiloba ) flowering in late April 2021 in southeast Minnesota.   Sharp-lobed hepatica, also called liverwor...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Fungi as Fixers

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The plants in this restored prairie at Elm Creek Park Reserve are mostly mycorrhizal. Fungi live with their roots in a mutually beneficial r...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Nature's Ancient Engineers

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Young mushrooms of fly agaric, Amanita muscaria , in a northern Minnesota mixed coniferous-deciduous forest.The caps of the mushrooms will f...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Are Fungi Plants?

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In early classification systems, these morel mushrooms ( Morchella esculenta ) were included with plants.   At one time, morel mushrooms and...
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