Prairies are made up of mostly grasses, sedges (grasslike plants), and other flowering plants called forbs (e.g. coneflowers, milkweed).
This is a pasqueflower. Did you know that this is the first spring bloomer on the prairie.
Before wet meadows and moist prairies were drained and tilled for agriculture, the prairie white-fringed orchid was more common.
Look for purple coneflowers in prairies and backyards. The purple flowers bloom from summer to early fall.
Cranesbill, star shower, diamond-sparks—these are all names for this plant. Can you guess why?
This Wisconsin prairie grass can be found in high prairies in southern Wisconsin to the north.
