Larkspur Plant Resources

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has added several new plants to its 2023 noxious weed list . This post focuses primarily on additio...

White Clover, Trifolium repens. White Clover is so common and modest that it’s often ignored. It’s like background noise: always there but b...

  Robinia pseudoacacia L. Black Locust flowering in mid-June at Baker Park Reserve, Maple Plain, MN. Black Locust, also called False Acacia...

On trees and shrubs, a false terminal bud is a lateral bud at the end of a twig. Unlike a true terminal bud, it doesn’t enclose the growth a...

In winter, trees and shrubs can be identified using twigs, bark, overwintering fruit and sometimes leaves. This post offers some tips and te...

Seedlings of Common Buckthorn rise from the seedbank after an area is cleared of larger plants. Suppressing reinvasion is a major challenge ...

The yellow capsules and scarlet arils of Oriental Bittersweet stand out in winter. Oriental, Asian or Asiatic Bittersweet ( Celastrus orbicu...