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.
- Some items contain supplemental images documenting the life cycle of the plant.
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Rosa arkansana
R. Neil Reese
Rosa arkansana is a(n) perennial subherbaceous shrub, which grows .5m to 1m in height. This species is commonly found prairies, roadsides, woodlands. The leaves are 9-11 leaflets making up the alternate. Rosa arkansana has white pink flowers that bloom from May to August.
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Rubus idaeus subsp. sachalinensis
R. Neil Reese
Rubus idaeus subsp. sachalinensis is a(n) biennial canes shrub with, which grows 1m to 1.5 in height. This species is commonly found rocky, moist, and woodland habitats. The leaves are alternate, pinnately compound. Rubus idaeus subsp. sachalinensis has white white flowers that bloom from June to July.
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Rubus parviflora
R. Neil Reese
Rubus parviflora is a(n) biennial shrub, which grows 1 m to 2 m in height. This species is commonly found in moist, shady forest habitats at mid to high elevations in the northern Black Hills and Bear Lodge Mts. and often with aspen, birch, and spruce trees. The leaves are simple, alternating, large and maple-like, shallowly 3-5 lobed. Rubus parviflora has white to rarely pinkish flowers that bloom from June to July.
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Sanguinaria canadensis
R. Neil Reese
Sanguinaria canadensis is a(n) perennial herb, which grows 10 cm to 40 cm in height. This species is commonly found moist understory of deciduous or mixed forests and thickets in drainage ways, often beneath bur oak, ironwood, birch, and beaked hazel trees. The leaves are long-petioled with blades round to kidney-shaped in ouline, usually palmately lobed and with shallower, rounded lobes. Sanguinaria canadensis has white and showy flowers that bloom from May to May.
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Shepherdia argentea
R. Neil Reese
Shepherdia argentea is a(n) shrub or tree deciduous, which grows 1m to 6m in height. This species is commonly found ravines and banks. A native to South Dakota, MN to British Columbia, south to Nebraska, Nevada, and New Mexico. The leaves are opposite, gray-green oblong to oblanceolate. Shepherdia argentea has yellow brown flowers that bloom from May to June.
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Solidago canadensis
R. Neil Reese
Solidago canadensis is a(n) perennial forb, which grows 0.3 m to 1 m in height. This species is commonly found at low to mid elevations through out the Hills area; moist meadows, floodplains, clearings, roadsides, and open forests. The leaves are numerous and distributed equally up the stem, sessile or nearly so, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic. Solidago canadensis has goldish-yellow flowers that bloom from July to September.
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Tanacetum vulgare
R. Neil Reese
Tanacetum vulgare is a(n) perennial forb, which grows 0.5 m to 1.5 m in height. This species is commonly found at low to mid elevations of the central and northern Black Hills and the Bear Lodge Mts.; stream margins, floodplains, roadsides, and disturbed habitats; introduced from Eurasia as an ornamental and medicinal plant. The leaves are alternating, numreous, pinnately dissected. Tanacetum vulgare has many yellow, discoid, button- like headed flowers that bloom from July to September.
