The black currant is a shrub with maple-like leaves with toothed edges.
From the tiniest mosses to the towering oaks, plants are important and unique to Wisconsin ecosystems.
Forest plants include trees, shrubs, vines, mosses, ferns, woodland wildflowers, and other green and growing things that can thrive in shade.
Trees have importance culturally, economically, and historically. Get up-close and personal with the megaflora of our state.
Some wetland plants grow completely underwater, others grow partly submerged, and some grow in places were the ground is often wet.
Take an online walk with EEK! and view wildflowers of the woods, wetlands and prairies. Then go outside, take a hike, and see if you can spot any of these beautiful bloomers.
Black willows are part of a large family of trees and shrubs that usually grow along streams and in other moist places.
This wetland plant is very common to Wisconsin's marshes, ponds, ditches, rivers and lakes.
People use this tree for woodwork in their homes, hope chests, closets, for lead pencils, posts, and poles.
Evergreen trees give us vibrant green color in winter when the rest of the world has turned brown
The jack pine is unique because its resinous cones open and release seeds during a fire or from an intense, hot sun.
The Northern White Cedar is easy to identify. It grows nearly everywhere in Wisconsin, except the southwest.
The Northern White Cedar is easy to identify. It grows nearly everywhere in Wisconsin, except the southwest.
In the winter, birch are also easy to identify by the dangling flower clusters in small bunches.
Before wet meadows and moist prairies were drained and tilled for agriculture, the prairie white-fringed orchid was more common.
The red pine stands tall in the forest (80-120 feet) with a narrow trunk measuring only 2-3 feet in diameter.
Cranesbill, star shower, diamond-sparks—these are all names for this plant. Can you guess why?
This Wisconsin prairie grass can be found in high prairies in southern Wisconsin to the north.
The sugar maple was selected as the state tree by school children in a statewide vote in 1893.
The tamarack is NOT an evergreen because an evergreen tree is one that is never totally without leaves.
While you were playing in the hot sun during summer vacation the trees on the streets, in the parks, and it the forests were working hard to keep you cool. They need a rest!
Armed with a flexible measuring tape and a ruler, big tree hunters are searching Wisconsin's cities and countryside for champion trees.
