The Minnesota River valley as viewed from the bluffs of Eden Prairie, Hennepin Co.

The specialized plant community of bogs is an assemblage of species that thrives in the acidic, nutrient-poor conditions of a sphagnum mat. Shown here are rose pogonia orchids and sphagnum. Cranberry Bog, Eden Prairie, Hennepin County, one of the southernmost locations of bogs in the state.
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