Mondarda (also called beebalm) and yellow coneflower mix in mid August
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Saturday, September 26, 2009
"Wild" Prairie: A Prairie Remnant
In the 'driftless' region of southwest Wisconsin, a land skipped by the last glacier, hills are frequent. And hills mean valleys, and sometimes the valleys are narrow and winding, but some, like these, are flat broad floodplains of thousands of years of sediment or maybe just a great deal of sediment during the runoff from nearby glaciers; I do not know geology well enough to say for sure. But a floodplain like this will have somewhere within it a winding ox-bowed creek or small river. This portion of a favorite plain has mixed prairie. Last year's dried remains could use a burn, but there are are various species from the sunflower and goldenrod families aglow on this mid September evening.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Summer Scene
Mix of yellow coneflower, rosin weed, prairie dock with bur oaks and shelter belt trees at horizon.
Two Oaks and Beebalm Meadow
Bee balm
Monarda fistulosa
2' tall
fragrant foliage
also called wild bergamot, Oswego tea
square stem shows membership in mint family
attracts many pollinators including butterflies
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Prairie Under Restoration
Layered appearance of bands of prairie grasses and forbs in a prairie under restoration
Monday, March 24, 2008
Yellow Coneflower
Yellow Coneflower
Ratibida pinnata
3 1/2 to 4 feet tall
July - August
Long Blooming
Brown center turns to seed pod that is loved by birds and fragrant when crushed
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Winter Grasses
Indian Grass
Sorghastrum nutans
Seed Stalk of Compass Plant
Silphium terebinthinaceum
Mixed Prairie in Late June
Prairie Dock Leaves
Prairie Dropseed
Purple Prairie Clover
Prairie Coreopsis
White Wild Indigo
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