A cluster of Minnesota’s state flower was taken without permission from public land west of New Ulm. Brown County Sheriff’s Office received a report last week the Showy lady slippers were probably taken Thursday or Friday. The rare pink and white flowers had been growing in a ditch in Milford Township. People who want to collect these orchids and other protected wildflowers need written permission from landowners. In this case, permission would have had to come from the Milford Township…
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