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South Dakota Native Plant Research
 

This research program was initiated in 1999 as part of an SDSU Agricultural Experiment Station funded program in the laboratory of Dr. R. Neil Reese. This project is designed to provide research and educational opportunities to students interested in conservation and utilization of native plant species, as well as encourage the use of native plants by small family farmers as alternative crops in South Dakota.

  • To locate a plant by the Native American name, or common name use the search box in the left side-bar.

  • A glossary of terms used in this collection can be found here.

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  • Penstemon eriantherus by R. Neil Reese

    Penstemon eriantherus

    R. Neil Reese

  • Penstemon gracilis by R. Neil Reese

    Penstemon gracilis

    R. Neil Reese

    Penstemon gracilis is a(n) perennial herbaceous, which grows 2 dm to 5 dm in height. This species is commonly found sandy or gravelly soil in prairies, valleys, and at lover elevations in mountains. The leaves are opposite. Penstemon gracilis has pale blue lavender flowers that bloom from May to August.

  • Penstemon grandiflorus by R. Neil Reese

    Penstemon grandiflorus

    R. Neil Reese

    Penstemon grandiflorus is a(n) perennial herbaceous, which grows 5 dm to 9.5 dm in height. This species is commonly found sandy to loamy prairie soils. The leaves are basal. Penstemon grandiflorus has pink pale blue flowers that bloom from April to July.

  • Phleum pratense by R. Neil Reese

    Phleum pratense

    R. Neil Reese

  • Phlox pilosa by R. Neil Reese

    Phlox pilosa

    R. Neil Reese

  • Physalis heterophylla by R. Neil Reese

    Physalis heterophylla

    R. Neil Reese

    Physalis heterophylla is a(n) herbaceous, which grows 1.5 dm to 9 dm in height. This species is commonly found "sandy soil, pastures, roadsides, and disturbed areas -can also be. The leaves are alternate. Physalis heterophylla has yellow pale yellow flowers that bloom from May to October.

  • Physalis virginiana by R. Neil Reese

    Physalis virginiana

    R. Neil Reese

  • Pinus ponderosa by R. Neil Reese

    Pinus ponderosa

    R. Neil Reese

  • Plantago rugelii by R. Neil Reese

    Plantago rugelii

    R. Neil Reese

  • Polygonum coccineum by R. Neil Reese

    Polygonum coccineum

    R. Neil Reese

    Polygonum coccineum is a(n) perennial herb, which grows 0.3 m to 1 m in height. This species is commonly found in the Minnelusa Foothills, Limestone Plateau and Belt, and the Central Core where rocky, sandy, or gravelly soils are. The leaves are alternating and the blades are elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate, glabrous to finely appressed-hairy. Polygonum coccineum has deep rose pink flowers that bloom from June to September.

  • Populus deltoides by R. Neil Reese

    Populus deltoides

    R. Neil Reese

  • Potentilla fruticosa by R. Neil Reese

    Potentilla fruticosa

    R. Neil Reese

  • Prenanthes racemosa by R. Neil Reese

    Prenanthes racemosa

    R. Neil Reese

  • Prunus americana by R. Neil Reese

    Prunus americana

    R. Neil Reese

    Prunus americana is a(n) shrub or small tree deciduous, which grows 3 m to 8 m in height. This species is commonly found prairies and pastures, edges of woodlands and along roadsides and stream banks from Massachusetts to Manitoba, New Mexico, central Texas, and northwest Florida. Found locally all across South Dakota. The leaves are obovate to obovate-oblong or lanceolate-ovate. Prunus americana has white white flowers that bloom from April to May.

  • Prunus virginiana by R. Neil Reese

    Prunus virginiana

    R. Neil Reese

    Prunus virginiana is a(n) deciduous shrub or small tree, which grows 10 m to 15 m in height. This species is commonly found rich soils, thickets, fence rows, roadsides, borders of woods, sandy and rocky soil on hillsides and ravine banks from Newfoundland to British Columbia, south to south California, New Mexico, Kansas, Illinois, Maryland, and south in mountains to Georgia. The leaves are alternate ovate to broadly obovate. Prunus virginiana has white white flowers that bloom from April to May.

  • Psoralea argophylla by R. Neil Reese

    Psoralea argophylla

    R. Neil Reese

  • Psoralea esculenta by R. Neil Reese

    Psoralea esculenta

    R. Neil Reese

    Psoralea esculenta is a(n) Stems having dense pubescence mark this perennial plant with a tuberous-thickened root, which grows 8 to 30 cm. Psoralea is harvested for food in height. This species is commonly found ridges and slopes from low to mid elevations in mixed grass prairies to open woodlands from Alberta and Manitoba south to Arkansas. The leaves are palemately compound (usually 5-merous). Psoralea esculenta has blue purple flowers that bloom from May to July.

  • Quercus macrocarpa by R. Neil Reese

    Quercus macrocarpa

    R. Neil Reese

  • Ratibida columnifera by R. Neil Reese

    Ratibida columnifera

    R. Neil Reese

    Ratibida columnifera is a(n) herbaceous, which grows 3 dm to 10 dm in height. This species is commonly found at prairies, roadsides, open disturbed areas, Great Plains region, southcentral Canada to Mexico, North. Ratibida columnifera has yellow purple-yellow flowers that bloom from June to September.

  • Rhamnus cathartica by R. Neil Reese

    Rhamnus cathartica

    R. Neil Reese

  • Rhus aromatica by R. Neil Reese

    Rhus aromatica

    R. Neil Reese

    Rhus aromatica is a(n) perennial shrub, which grows 2 ft. to 6 ft. in height. This species is commonly found land from Quebec and Vermont to Kansas, south to eastern Texas and east to Florida. The leaves are alternate. Rhus aromatica has yellow red flowers that bloom from March to April.

  • Rhus glabra by R. Neil Reese

    Rhus glabra

    R. Neil Reese

  • Ribes americanum by R. Neil Reese

    Ribes americanum

    R. Neil Reese

    Ribes americanum is a(n) shrub herbaceous, which grows 1m to 2m in height. This species is commonly found stream banks and ravines. The leaves are golden glands on underside of green palmately lobe. Ribes americanum has greenish-yellow white green white flowers that bloom from May to June.

  • Ribes hirtellum by R. Neil Reese

    Ribes hirtellum

    R. Neil Reese

    Ribes hirtellum is a(n) perennial shrub, which grows 1 m to 1.5 m in height. This species is commonly found along streams and in moist forest habitats at mid to high elvations in th Black Hills. The leaves are oval to broadly rounded in outline with 3-5 deeply cut lobes and the leaf surface is a dull green. Ribes hirtellum has greenish to creamy white flowers that bloom from May to June.

  • Ribes odoratum by R. Neil Reese

    Ribes odoratum

    R. Neil Reese

    Ribes odoratum is a(n) shrub herbaceous, which grows 1m to 2m in height. This species is commonly found open hillsides, riverbanks, and thickets. The leaves are simple, alternate, 3-lobed. Ribes odoratum has yellow bright red flowers that bloom from April to May.

    Additional notes: Branches arch with the younger ones light brown, older ones becoming dark brown. Leaves fascicled on side branches of older wood.

 

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