For centuries, the wild grasslands and valleys of Minnesota were dotted with a type of cactus, spiky and round, that blooms every spring. It grows about ankle high, roughly the size of a softball, and ...
Despite famously frigid winters and soggy snowmelt springs, Minnesota can surprise people with plants most associated with America’s arid deserts: prickly pear cacti. Their sharp spines make ...
LQP State Park Manager Terri Dinesen talks about MN native Cactus, and ancient glaciers. LQP State Park Manager, Terri Dinesen, talks about MN native cactus and the remnants of ancient glaciers in the ...