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:
May 1 – 31
Shooting-star (White, Pink, Lavender)
Bird’s Foot Violet (Blue-violet)
Field Pussytoes (White)
Stargrass (Yellow)
Wood-betony (Pale-yellow)
Arrow-leaved Violet (Red-violet)
Common Strawberry (White)
Horsetail (Green)
June 1 – 30
Swamp Saxifrage (Greenish-white)
False Toadflax (White)
Silverweed (Yellow)
Blue-eyed Grass (Blue)
Golden Alexanders (Yellow)
Hoary Puccoon (Yellow)
Lead Plant (Lavender-blue)
Spiderwort (Blue)
Pale-spike Lobelia (Pale-blue)
Tick-trefoil (Pink)
Coreopsis (Golden-yellow)
Yarrow (White)
Bulrush (Brown)
Marsh Fern (Green)
Blue Flag Iris (Violet)
Cattail (Brown)
July 1 – 31
Northern Bedstraw (White)
Flowering Spurge (White)
Common Milkweed (Dusty-pink)
Black-eyed Susan (Golden-yellow)
Phlox (Bright-pink)
Purple Prairie Clover (Bright-pink)
Nodding Wild Onion (Pink, White)
Tall Green Milkweed (Pale-green)
Cinquefoil (Yellow)
Aug 1 – 31
Ohio Goldenrod (Golden-yellow)
Cowbane (White)
Gray Goldenrod (Golden-yellow)
Dense Blazing-star (Pink)
Rough Blazing-star (Pink)
Mountain-mint (White)
Prairie-dock (Yellow)
New England Aster (Purple)
Indian Grass (Golden-brown)
Big Blue Stem (Purplish)
Fringed Gentian (Blue)
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.