Scientific Value

Since 1990, Lakela Herbarium personnel provided the first documentation for the occurrence of the following species outside of cultivation in their respective states:

Minnesota

• Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
• Allium hollandicum (ornamental onion)
• Astragalus cicer (chickpea milkvetch)
• Botrychium acuminatum (pointed moonwort)
• Botrychium ascendens (upswept moonwort)
• Botrychium michiganense (Michigan moonwort)
• Botrychium pseudopinnatum (false northwestern moonwort)
• Camelina rumelica (graceful falseflax)
• Campanula cervicaria (bristly bellflower)
• Campanula persicifolia (willow bellflower)
• Cardamine flexuosa (woodland bittercress)
• Centaurea phrygia (wig knapweed)
• Cephalaria gigantea (Tatarian cephalaria)
• Clematis terniflora (yam-leaved clematis)
• Cotoneaster acutifolius var. lucidus (hedge cotoneaster)
• Daphne mezereum (February daphne)
• Digitalis grandiflora (yellow foxglove)
• Draba verna (spring whitlow-grass)
• Echinops exaltatus (tall globe-thistle)
• Elaeagnos umbellata (autumn-olive)
• Euonymus alatus (winged burning bush)
• Filipendula rubra (queen of the prairie)
• Galium mollugo (white bedstraw)
• Geranium pratense (meadow cranesbill)
• Geranium robertianum (herb-Robert)
• Geranium sanguineum (bloody cranesbill)
• Hieracium caespitosum (yellow king-devil)
• Hypericum maculatum subsp. obtusiusculum (spotted St. John's wort)
• Impatiens glandulifera (ornamental jewelweed)
• Lamiastrum galeobdolon (yellow archangel)
• Lamium maculatum (spotted dead nettle)
• Lathyrus sylvestris (everlasting pea)
• Leontodon autumnalis (fall dandelion)
• Leucanthemella serotina (giant daisy)
• Logfia arvensis (field cottonrose)

• Lonicera caerulea subsp. edulis (sweetberry honeysuckle)

• Lonicera sempervireus (trumpet honeysuckle)
• Lonicera ×salicifolia (willow-leaved honeysuckle)
• Lysimachia vulgaris (garden loosestrife)
• Malus baccata var. baccata (Siberian crab)
• Malva moschata (musk mallow)
• Phedimus aizoon (aizoon stonecrop)
• Phedimus kamtschaticus (orange stonecrop)
• Phedimus spurius (two-row stonecrop)
• Poa bulbosa (bulbous bluegrass)
• Polygonum xbohemicum (hybrid Japanese knotweed)
• Rosa glauca (redleaf rose)
• Rumex thyrsiflorus (narrow-leaved sorrel)
• Scrophularia nodosa (figwort)
• Sedum rupestre  (Jenny’s stonecrop)
• Senecio viscosus (sticky groundsel)
• Spergularia rubra (sand-spurry)
• Spergularia salina (salt-marsh sand-spurrey)
• Spiraea xbilliardii (hybrid spiraea)
• Syringa reticulata subsp. reticulata (Japanese tree lilac)
• Verbascum chaixii (nettle-leaved mullein)
• Verbena officinalis (herb of the cross)
• Veronica saturejiifolia (prostrate speedwell)
• Vicia tetrasperma (four-seed vetch)

Wisconsin

• Botrychium pseudopinnatum (false northwestern moonwort)
• Geranium pratense (meadow cranesbill)
• Malus baccata var. baccata (Siberian crab)
• Rumex stenophyllus (narrowleaf dock)
• Salsola collina (slender Russian-thistle)
• Senecio viscosus (sticky groundsel)
• Sparganium glomeratum (clustered bur-reed)

• Syringa reticulata subsp. reticulata (Japanese tree lilac)

• Thermopsis rhombifolia (round-leaved thermopsis)

Additional information can be found at the University of Minnesota Herbarium (MIN) and the Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS).