Plants of Minnesota

Sustainers of Life

Every member of the animal kingdom relies on plants. They need it for shelter, to feed themselves or the animals they prey on, and, of course, to provide the bare-bone essentials of oxygen and decomposition. Plants are the architects of our ecosystems, and vital to the survival and comfort of our species, and we should work as hard as possible to preserve native species and habitats.

Not everything in our plant library is considered a true "plant". Ferns, rush, fungus and other organisms that reproduce through sporespredate seed-bearing plants, and have a scientific classification of their own. With this understood, (and since most of our users aren't scientists), we've included them all in a kind of master index.

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