The list of ecoregions in Minnesota provides an overview to the ecoregion

Ecoregion

An ecoregion , sometimes called a bioregion, is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than an ecozone and larger than an ecosystem. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural...

s in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency/Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Commission for Environmental Cooperation

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation was established by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to implement the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation , the environmental side accord to the North American Free Trade Agreement...

, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is the agency of the U.S. state of Minnesota charged with conserving and managing the state's natural resources. The agency maintains areas such as state parks, state forests, recreational trails, and recreation areas as well as managing minerals,...

, and the World Wildlife Fund.

Environmental Protection Agency/Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Level I	Level III	Level IV
9 – Great Plains Great Plains The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S... 9.2 – Temperate Prairies	46 – Northern Glaciated Plains	46e – Tewaukon Big Stone Stagnation Moraine 46k – Prairie Coteau Coteau des Prairies The Coteau des Prairies is a plateau approximately 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width , rising from the prairie flatlands in eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa in the United States... 46l – Prairie Coteau Escarpment 46m – Big Sioux Basin 46o – Minnesota River Prairie
	47 – Western Corn Belt Plains	47a – Loess Prairies 47b – Des Moines Lobe  47c – Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains 47g – Lower St Crois and Vermillion Valleys
	48 – Lake Agassiz Plain	48a – Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin  48b – Beach Ridges and Sand Deltas 48d – Lake Agassiz Plains
5 – Northern Forests Taiga Taiga , also known as the boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests.Taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome. In North America it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States and is known as the Northwoods... 5.2 – Mixed Wood Shield	49 – Northern Minnesota Wetlands	49a – Peatlands 49b – Forested Lake Plains
	50 – Northern Lakes and Forests	50a – Lake Superior Lacustrine Clay Plain 50b – Minnesota/Wisconsin Upland Till Plain 50m – Mesabi Range 50n – Boundary Lakes and Hills 50o – Glacial Lakes Upham and Aitken 50p – Toimi Drumlins 50q – Itasca and St Louis Moraines 50r – Chippewa Plains 50s – Nashwauk/Marcell Moraines and Uplands 50t – North Shore Highlands Subsection
8 – Eastern Temperate Forest 8.1 – Mixed Wood Plains	51 – North Central Hardwood Forests	51a – St Crois Outwash Plain and Stagnation Plains 51h – Anoka Sand Plain and Mississippi Valley 51i – Big Woods Big Woods Big Woods refers to a type of temperate hardwood forest ecoregion found in south-central Minnesota. "Big Woods" is a direct translation of the name given to the region by French explorers: Grand Bois.-Trees:... 51j – Alexandria Moraines and Detroit Lakes Outwash Plains 51k – McGraw Till Plain and Drumlins 51l – Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till Plain
	52 – Driftless Area	52b – Blufflands and Coulees 52c – Rochester/Paleozoic Plateau Upland

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is the agency of the U.S. state of Minnesota charged with conserving and managing the state's natural resources. The agency maintains areas such as state parks, state forests, recreational trails, and recreation areas as well as managing minerals,...

 divides the state of Minnesota into regions based on the agency's Ecological Classification System (ECS), which follows the guidelines set forth by the National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units.

Provinces	Sections	Subsections
212 – Laurentian Mixed Forest Province	212J – Southern Superior Uplands	212Ja – Glacial Lake Superior Plain 212Jd – St. Croix Moraine
	212K – Western Superior Uplands	212Kb – Mille Lacs Uplands
	212L – Northern Superior Uplands	212La – Border Lakes 212Lb – North Shore Highlands North Shore Highlands The North Shore Highlands are a physiographic and ecological region of the U.S. state of Minnesota in central North America. They were formed by a variety of geologic processes, but are principally composed of rock created by magma and lava from a rift about 1.1 billion years ago, which rock... 212Lc – Nashwauk Uplands 212Ld – Toimi Uplands 212Le – Laurentian Uplands
	212M – Northern Minnesota and Ontario Peatlands	212Ma – Littlefork-Vermillion Uplands 212Mb – Agassiz Lowlands
	212N – Northern Minnesota Drift and Lake Plains	212Na – Chippewa Plains 212Nb – St. Louis Moraines 212Nc – Pine Moraines and Outwash Plains 212Nd – Tamarack Lowlands
222 – Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province	222L – Paleozic Plateau	222Lc – The Blufflands 222Lf – Rochester Plateau
	222M – Minnesota and Northeast Iowa Morainal	222Ma – Hardwood Hills 222Mb – Big Woods Big Woods Big Woods refers to a type of temperate hardwood forest ecoregion found in south-central Minnesota. "Big Woods" is a direct translation of the name given to the region by French explorers: Grand Bois.-Trees:... 222Mc – Anoka Sand Plain 222Md – St. Paul-Baldwin Plains 222Me – Oak Savanna
223 – Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Province Tallgrass Aspen Parkland The Tallgrass Aspen Parkland is a Conservation area located in southeastern Manitoba/northwestern Minnesota. The area is characterized by a mosaic of habitat types, including tallgrass prairie, aspen woodland, sedge meadow wetlands, riparian woodland, and oak savannah...	223N – Lake Agassiz, Aspen Parklands	223Na – Aspen Parklands
251 –Prairie Parkland Province	251A – Red River Valley	251Aa – Red River Prairie
	251B – North Central Glaciated Plains	251Ba – Minnesota River Prairie 251Bb – Coteau Moraines 251Bc – Inner Coteau

World Wildlife Fund

• Canadian aspen forests and parklands
  Aspen parkland
  Aspen parkland refers to a very large area of transitional biome between prairie and boreal forest in two sections; the Peace River Country of northwestern Alberta crossing the border into British Columbia, and a much larger area stretching from central Alberta, all across central Saskatchewan to...
  
  
• Central tall grasslands
  Central tall grasslands
  The Central tall grasslands are a prairie ecoregion of the Midwestern United States, part of the North American Great Plains.-Setting:This ecoeregion covers a large area of southern Minnesota, most of Iowa, a small part of eastern South Dakota and a narrow strip through eastern Nebraska and...
  
   (consisting of parts of 251B (North Central Glaciated Plains) and 222M – Minnesota and Northeast Iowa Morainal) along with parts of 251C (Central Dissected Till plains) which are not in Minnesota.
• Northern tall grasslands
  Northern tall grasslands
  The Northern tall grasslands is one of 867 terrestrial ecoregions defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. This ecoregion largely follows the Red River Valley in the Canadian province of Manitoba and the American states of North Dakota and Minnesota....
  
  
• Western Great Lakes forests
• Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition
  Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition
  The Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition is a terrestrial ecoregion that is defined by the World Wildlife Fund. An oak savanna plant community located in the Upper Midwest region of the United States, it is a transitory ecotone between the tallgrass prairies to the west and the temperate...