When To Visit?

Throughout the Spring, Summer, and Fall there are many species of flowering plants in bloom as well as non-flowering plants seen.  Here are just a few examples:

PLANT KEY FOR TRAIL MAP

May 1 - 31

1 Shooting-star White, Pink, Lavender
2 Birdfoot Violet Blue-violet
3 Field Pussytoes White
4 Stargrass Yellow
5 Wood-betony Pale-yellow
6 Arrow-leaved Violet Red-violet
7 Common Strawberry White
8 Horsetail Green

June 1 - 30

9 Swamp Saxifrage Greenish-white
10 False Toadflax White
11 Silverweed Yellow
12 Blue-eyed Grass Blue
13 Golden Alexanders Yellow
14 Hoary Puccoon Yellow
15 Lead Plant Lavender-blue
16 Spiderwort Blue
17 Pale-spike Lobelia Pale-blue
18 Tick-trefoil Pink
19 Coreopsis Golden-yellow
20 Yarrow White
21 Bulrush Brown
22 Marsh Fern Green
23 Blue Flag Iris Violet
24 Cattail Brown

July 1 - 31

25 Northern Bedstraw White
26 Flowering Spurge White
27 Common Milkweed Dusty-pink
28 Black-eyed Susan Golden-yellow
29 Phlox Bright-pink
30 Purple Prairie Clover Bright-pink
31 Nodding Wild Onion Pink, White
32 Tall Green Milkweed Pale-green
33 Cinquefoil Yellow

Aug 1 - 31

34 Ohio Goldenrod Golden-yellow
35 Cowbane White
36 Gray Goldenrod Golden-yellow
37 Dense Blazing-star Pink
38 Rough Blazing-star Pink
39 Mountain-mint White
40 Prairie-dock Yellow
41 New England Aster Purple
42 Indian Grass Golden-brown
43 Big Blue Stem Purplish
44 Fringed Gentian Blue
45 Lanced-leaved Goldenrod Golden-yellow

SOME FLOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO BLOOM UNTIL A KILLING FROST

PLEASE TRY NOT TO STEP ON THE FLOWERS AND, OF COURSE
NO PICKING, NO DIGGING, NO SEED GATHERING, THANK YOU.

To become a FRIEND OF THE PRAIRIE send $10.00 to: Chiwaukee Prairie Preservation Fund, P.O. Box 1802, Kenosha, WI 53141. We will be glad to give your group a slide program or a guided tour.

Please consider becoming a volunteer tour guide.
Call: Racine (262) 637-3141 Kenosha (262) 694-1748

Reference: A Field Guide to Wildflowers - Peterson/McKenny