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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.

  • Some items contain supplemental images documenting the life cycle of the plant.
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  • Rosa arkansana by R. Neil Reese

    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.

  • Rubus idaeus subsp. sachalinensis by R. Neil Reese

    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.

    Additional Notes: Bark is red-brown with soft yellowish prickles and bristles.

  • Rubus parviflora by R. Neil Reese

    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.

  • Rudbeckia hirta by R. Neil Reese

    Rudbeckia hirta

    R. Neil Reese

  • Rumex occidentalis by R. Neil Reese

    Rumex occidentalis

    R. Neil Reese

  • Sagittaria cuneata by R. Neil Reese

    Sagittaria cuneata

    R. Neil Reese

  • Sanguinaria canadensis by R. Neil Reese

    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.

  • Schizachyrium scoparium by R. Neil Reese

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    R. Neil Reese

  • Schrankia nuttallii by R. Neil Reese

    Schrankia nuttallii

    R. Neil Reese

  • Senecio canus by R. Neil Reese

    Senecio canus

    R. Neil Reese

  • Shepherdia argentea by R. Neil Reese

    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.

  • Sisymbrium altissimum by R. Neil Reese

    Sisymbrium altissimum

    R. Neil Reese

  • Sisyrinchium montanum by R. Neil Reese

    Sisyrinchium montanum

    R. Neil Reese

  • Smilacina racemosa by R. Neil Reese

    Smilacina racemosa

    R. Neil Reese

  • Smilacina stellata by R. Neil Reese

    Smilacina stellata

    R. Neil Reese

  • Solidago canadensis by R. Neil Reese

    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.

  • Solidago mollis by R. Neil Reese

    Solidago mollis

    R. Neil Reese

  • Sorghastrum nutans by R. Neil Reese

    Sorghastrum nutans

    R. Neil Reese

  • Sphaeralcea coccinea by R. Neil Reese

    Sphaeralcea coccinea

    R. Neil Reese

  • Symphoricarpos occidentalis by R. Neil Reese

    Symphoricarpos occidentalis

    R. Neil Reese

  • Tanacetum vulgare by R. Neil Reese

    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.

  • Thermopsis rhombifolia by R. Neil Reese

    Thermopsis rhombifolia

    R. Neil Reese

  • Townsendia exscapa by R. Neil Reese

    Townsendia exscapa

    R. Neil Reese

  • Tradescantia bracteata by R. Neil Reese

    Tradescantia bracteata

    R. Neil Reese

  • Tradescantia occidentalis by R. Neil Reese

    Tradescantia occidentalis

    R. Neil Reese

 

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