University of Minnesota Extension volunteers can help us better understand the distribution and density of squill, Scilla sibericais, a non-native spring ephemeral that MN Master Naturalists and others have found during the last few City Nature Challenge events in April.

Until City Nature Challenge volunteers started reporting squill in MN this species wasn't on the radar of many natural resource or invasive species professionals. This year we'd like to better understand where it is and if we should look more closely at regulation or management.