Asteraceae
This plant in this family is....
4-6" white flowers, all are disks
Huge tall plant with purple stem
Larger flowers are blue/green
Pale Indian Plantain
Arnoglossum atriplicifolium
This plant in this family is...
Native to MN
Flower heads resemble turkey feet
Many varieties
Big Bluestem
Andropogon gerardii
This plant in this family is...
Native
The flower looks like a medival weapon
Growing easily in a clump 2-3ft tall
Food source for birds
Mace Sedge
Carex grayi
This plant in this family is...
Red flowers
Likes wet boggy areas
Flowers are important nectar source for butterflies and hummingbirds
Cardinal flower
Lobelia cardinalis
This plant in this family is...
Orange flowers with red spots
Heavily branched lots of flowers
Likes wet areas, Boggy areas
Jewelweed
Impatiens capensis
This plant in this family is...
2-4" white flowers
opposite flowers
common in shady areas
White Snakeroot
Ageratina altissima
This plant in this family is...
Grown in wet/boggy areas
Will cut you if you rub the leaves
Resembles rice
Rice cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
This plant in this family is...
Native
Blown down look
Blue/green color
W in cross-section of the leaves
Lake Sedge
Carex lacustris
This plant in this family is...
Likes wet boggy areas
Get leggy and flops over in shade
Can grow up to 3ft tall
Great Blue Lobelia
Lobelia siphilitica
This plant in this family is...
Pale yellow flowers with shorter spur
Likes wet boggy areas
Larger plant with fewer flowers than Jewelweed
Pale Touch Me Not
Impatiens pallida
This plant in this family is...
Huge, dock-like leaves are rough
Flower stalks are very tall
Conspicuous silphium bracts look like plastic
Prairie Dock
Silphium terebinthinaceum
This plant in this family...
Native
Mature seed heads are dense, golden, and plumelike
Flowering stalks 2-7ft tall
Indian Grass
Sorghastrum nutans
This plant in this family is...
Native
Very fine thin leaves
Short roughly on 12" tall
Pennsylvania sedge
Carex pennsylvanica
This plant in this family is...
2-4" flowers
Stems often black with aphids
Opposite leaves are yellow-green
Often found in resorted prairie
Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
This plant in this family is...
Native
Grows about 3ft tall
Tops of flower stocks resemble a pine tree shape
Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
This plant in this family is...
Native
Dense clump-forming sedge
arching flowering spikes appear among the foliage in late spring
Palm Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
This plant in this family is...
1-3" tiny leaves
Small flowers in thick clusters
Involucres 35mm long
Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
This plant in this family is...
Native
Clump-forming cool-season grass
Typically 2-3ft tall
Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia caespitosa
This plant in this family is...
Fine blue-grey foliage
Aggressive rhizomes
Pendulous brown flowers
Blue Sedge
Carex flacca