Larkspur Plant Resources

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...

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

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

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

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

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

These blackberry leaves ( Rubus species) displayed multiple colors this fall. If conditions are favorable, fall gives us a brilliant displa...