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How to Identify Narrowleaf Bittercress

How to Identify Invasive Plants in the Carrot Family

How to Identify Native and Introduced Phragmites, Common Reed

How to Identify Oriental Bittersweet in Winter

How to Identify Common Buckthorn in Winter

Winter Identification of Deciduous Trees and Shrubs: Some Tips and Terms

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Native Plant Seed Germination: Some Resources

There's something deeply satisfying about growing plants from seeds. More than cuttings or divisions, seeds hold the promise, or at leas...

How to Identify Common Buckthorn in Winter

A female Buckthorn displays a persistent leaf, fruits and terminal thorn that help with winter identification. For an explanation of the ter...
Plant Profile: Wild Ginger

A single flower emerges between a pair of leaves of wild ginger, Asarum canadense . In spring, wild ginger is one of the first plants to eme...
Moonseed Vine: A Poisonous Grapevine Look-Alike

Moonseed vine, Menispermum canadense , in early fall. Although most of its leaves have now fallen, it can still be identified -- and avoided...

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Snapshots

How do plants survive winter? Follow the image for an explanation from Green Bay Botanical Garden.

Featured Web Resources

Deciduous Trees of Minnesota: A Winter Key. Thomas Morley, UMN, 1972.
Winter ID Key. UW-Stevens Point. 2014. (Formatted as booklet. Print and fold for easiest use.)
How to Use a Dichotomous Key. Larkspur.
Recommended trees for climate-ready woodlands. UMN Extension.
A guide to forest understory revegetation to help manage buckthorn and other invasive plants. Michael Schuser and others. UMN. 2024.

Featured Video

Grand Portage State Park, MN. December 20, 2020. CBS Sunday Morning.1:55.

News, Articles & Essays

Mapping the risks for Minnesota: How UMN scientists are tracking mountain pine beetle outbreaks. Carolyn Bernhardt, UMN MITPPC. December 10, 2025.
December 2025 Featured Plant: Narrow-leaved Purple Coneflower. Stuart Wagenius for BWSR.
Pick Your Poison: A Minnesota writer learns a thing or two from a toxic plant he discovered at his cabin. Peter Leschak. Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, November-December.
Forestry for Minnesota birds. Peter Dieser, UMN Extension. November 19, 2025.
Sudden oak death pathogen detected for first time in Minnesota. UMN MITPPC. November 11, 2025.
November Featured Plant: Large Beardtongue. Rhyan Schicker for BWSR.
Deer and Invasive Plants: Impacts and Interactions. Dr. David Gorchov, Miami University [Ohio], for WIGL. Oct. 23, 2025.
Scouting for invasive species this fall. Hana Kim, UMN Extension. Oct. 15, 2025.

Research

Entomopathogenic Fungi from Minnesota Are Virulent Against Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Adults in a Laboratory Autodissemination Device Assay. Colin J. Peters and others. Forests 2025, 16 (11), 1742.

Upcoming Events

All times are Central Time unless stated otherwise. See also the recorded webinars below.
Keystone plants and soft landings for native bees. UMN Extension webinar. Monday, January 26, 1 - 2:30 pm.
Latest bee research. UMN Extension webinar. Tuesday, January 27, 1 - 2:30 pm.
Pollinator habitats in action. UMN Extension webinar. Wednesday, January 28, 1 - 2:30 pm.

Webinar Recordings

Outdoor skills webinar archive. Mn DNR.
My Minnesota Woods. UMN Extension.
Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative, UMN Extension.

Programs & Events Calendars

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Three Rivers Park District
Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas
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More to Explore

Bug Banter Podcast. Xerces Society.
BWSR Featured Plant Series
Ecological Landscapes of Wisconsin - WI DNR
Fridays with a Forester series, UMN Extension.
Invasive Plants. Friends of Minnetonka (MN) Parks.
Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center
Minnesota Native Plant Encyclopedia - MN DNR
Minnesota Noxious Weed List. MDA.
Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas
Minnesota's Ecoregions - MN DNR
Minnesota's Native Plant Communities - MN DNR
Native Plant Suppliers & Services in Minnesota
Plant Native Plants to Help Nature - WI DNR
Plants of Minnesota - MN DNR
Prairie Pod: A MNDNR podcast about prairies.
Smarty Plants: "A podcast exploring invasive insects and noxious weeds that threaten Minnesota’s natural and agricultural resources." MN Dept. of Ag.
The Wandering Naturalist - Podcast by Three Rivers Park District
UMN Extension Native Plants Web Page
Weed of the Month Series - Minnesota Dept of Ag

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