Native range
Native plants of Minnesota
144 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Minnesota, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 119 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
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How this list is made
Derived from each plant's native-range record, checked against Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS with every decision on a ledger; Minnesota is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the state's counties record each plant, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 162 plants, 151 have been checked against outside sources (4 fully verified); the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Range data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 4.0, adapted) and USDA PLANTS. How the native range is credited.
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Recorded across Minnesota
How many of the state's 87 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Minnesota; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 131 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Golden Alexanders
- Chokecherry
- Redosier Dogwood
- Swamp Milkweed
- Wild Bee Balm
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Stiff Goldenrod
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Spotted Joe Pye Weed
- False Sunflower
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Leadplant
- Quaking Aspen
- Bur Oak
- Little Bluestem
- Common Sneezeweed
- Prairie Junegrass
- American Linden
- Smooth Sumac
- Culver's Root
- Long-Beaked Sedge
- Nodding Onion
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Indiangrass
- Switchgrass
- Common Milkweed
- False Solomon's Seal
- Prairie Smoke
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Lady Fern
- Nannyberry Viburnum
- Rosy Sedge
- Anise Hyssop
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Sideoats Grama
- American Hazelnut
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Whorled Milkweed
- Paper Birch
- Wild Ginger
- American Hophornbeam
- Eastern Star Sedge
- American Cranberrybush Viburnum
- New England Aster
- Common Hackberry
- Common Pussy Willow
- Showy Milkweed
- Sugar Maple
- Zigzag Goldenrod
- Ostrich Fern
- Pagoda Dogwood
- Prairie Dropseed Grass
- Golden Ragwort
- Northern Red Oak
- Sensitive Fern
- Silver Maple
- Wild Geranium
- American Elderberry
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Northern Blue Flag Iris
- Red Elderberry
- Dotted Blazing Star
- Butterfly Weed
- Common Snowberry
- Northern Bush Honeysuckle
- White Turtlehead
- Bunchberry
- Gray-Headed Coneflower
- New Jersey Tea
- Woodland Phlox
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Maidenhair Fern
- Cinnamon Fern
- Eastern White Pine
- Kinnikinnick
- Red Maple
- Western Serviceberry
- Allegheny Serviceberry
- Aromatic Aster
- Staghorn Sumac
- Mexican Hat
- Bristleleaf Sedge
- Southern Blue Flag
- Winterberry
- White Oak
- Purple Lovegrass
- American Wintergreen
- Blue Wood Aster
- Arborvitae
- Ninebark
- Rattlesnake Master
- Sunflower
- Potentilla
- Sweet Joe Pye Weed
- Black Chokeberry
- Royal Fern
- Soft Rush
- Tufted Hairgrass
- Creeping Jacob's Ladder
- Golden Currant
- Virginia Creeper
- Kentucky Coffeetree
- Mayapple
- American Hornbeam
- Downy Serviceberry
- Swamp White Oak
- Brome-Like Sedge
- Brown-Eyed Susan
- Buttonbush
- Common Blanketflower
- Garden Phlox
- Virginia Bluebells
- Cardinal Flower
- Chives
- Common Witch Hazel
- Gray's Sedge
- Palm Sedge
- Buffalograss
- Honeylocust
- River Birch
- Foxglove Beardtongue
- Christmas Fern
- Creeping Phlox
- Seersucker Sedge
- Chinkapin Oak
- Creeping Oregon Grape
- Eastern Hemlock
- Fragrant Sumac
- Marginal Wood Fern
Garden forms of Minnesota natives
119 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Minnesota and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Alma Pötschke
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Amazing Grace
- Amber Jubilee
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Beauty
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Paradise
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Bunny Blue Sedge
- Candy Stripe
- Cheer Drops Arborvitae
- Cherry Berries Wintergreen
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Columnar White Pine
- Compact Andorra Juniper
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crimson Comet Buttonbush
- Dakota Burgundy Beardtongue
- Danica
- David
- DeGroot's Spire
- Denver Daisy
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Diabolo
- Drummond's Pink
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Dwarf White Pine
- Emerald Blue
- Emerald Green
- Emerald Pink
- Eye Candy Moss Phlox
- Eye Shadow Moss Phlox
- Fire Chief
- Gentsch White
- Giant Sunflower
- Golden Globe
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Heavy Metal
- Holmstrup
- Indian Summer
- Jeana
- Jeddeloh Hemlock
- Laura
- Lemon Queen
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Little Devil
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Mammoth
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Moulin Rouge
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Orange Perfection
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Beauty
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Ace
- Red Sprite
- Red Wings
- Regent Serviceberry
- Rheingold
- Ring of Fire
- Robert Poore
- Scarlet Flame
- Shenandoah
- Snow Flurry
- Soraya
- Starfire
- Strawberry Blonde
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- Tangerine
- Techny
- Teddy Bear
- Tiger Eyes Sumac
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Velvet Queen
- Weeping Hemlock
- Weeping White Pine
- White Delight
- White Flame
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
Plant groups native to Minnesota
18 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Minnesota; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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