Enjoy prairies year-round

Look for these early bloomers: 

•Bird's Foot Violet

•Cream Wild Indigo

•Evening Primrose

•Indian Paintbrush

•Pasque Flower

•Prairie Buttercup

•Prairie Phlox

•Prairie Smoke

•Shooting Star

•Spiderwort

•Spring Ladies' Tresses

•Wood Betony

Look for: 

•Black-eyed Susan

•Prairie Fringed Orchid

•Blazing Star

•Prairie Lily

•Butterfly Milkweed

•Purple Coneflower

•Culver's Root

•Purple Prairie Clover

•Foxglove Penstemon

•Queen of the Prairie

•Lead Plant

•Rattlesnake Master

•Nodding Wild Onion

•Wild Bergamot

•Obedient Plant

•Wild Quinine

Look for:

Big Bluestem

•Partridge Pea

•Cup Plant

•Prairie Dock

•Gentian

•Prairie Dropseed

•Goldenrod

•Rosin Weed

•Grey-headed Coneflower

•Sunflower

•Indian Grass

•Switch Grass

•Little Bluestem

•Tall Coreopsis

•New England Aster

•Western Ironweed

Although the blooms are gone, the winter prairie is still beautiful. The tall grasses and dried plants give shape and structure to the winter landscape. Notice how prairie plants provide warmth and shelter for many animal species. Look for their tracks in the prairie snow.