Nature sites in Minnesota to view native plants, birds, and other wildlife. These locations, with very few exceptions, are open to the public.

Native, naturalized, invasive, or simply planted — any plant found on a natural site in Minnesota.

Plant pages include photos, a description, a multi-source distribution map, and a list of sightings.

Insects and arachnids found in Minnesota.

Species pages include photos, a description, and a list of sightings, as well as distribution maps for butterflies, moths, dragonflies, and damselflies.

Birds and bears, snakes and squirrels, toads and turtles — wildlife found in Minnesota.

Wildlife pages include photos, a description, and a list of sightings, as well as distribution maps for amphibians, mammals, and reptiles.

Mushrooms, other fungi, and lichens found in Minnesota.

Fungi pages include photos, a description, and a list of sightings.

Wallpapers

Wallpapers for your desktop or laptop computer.

Trees

The Minnesota Trees page includes all tree species found on natural sites in Minnesota.

Cypsela or Achene?
What is the fruit of a sunflower called? The answer depends on who you ask.

Destinations

Carver Park Reserve

Zimmerman Prairie

Plants

downy hawthorn (Crataegus mollis)

small-spike false nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica)

prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum var. terebinthinaceum)

Insects and Arachnids

eriophid mite (Eriophyes cerasicrumena)

syrphid fly (Toxomerus geminatus)