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Pulsatilla nuttalliana, known as American pasqueflower, prairie pasqueflower, prairie crocus, or simply pasqueflower, is a flowering plant native to much of North America, from the western side of Lake Michigan, to northern Canada in the Northwest Territories, south to New Mexico in the southwestern United States. [3]
Native bees nest beneath or within these plants or use elements of the plants for their nests. [3] Consequently, they are thought to be an important species for attracting bees for pollination in the area. [3] Prairie dock is one of the few species that successfully persists on land that has been converted from prairie to railway. [5]
The native habitat of the plant includes prairie and meadows. [2] It grows in moist areas, such as river bottomland. [1] The original range of Asclepias sullivantii was the tall grass prairie, but very little of that habitat remains because of wide spread conversion to farming. [4]
Prairie coneflower is valued by gardeners for xeriscaping and native plant gardens for its color and rich fragrance. Grown in garden settings plants are often biennial, growing the first year and dying after blooming in the second year. [12] The prairie coneflower requires dry to medium soil moisture and rarely has serious disease or pest problems.
Dower's Prairie is a 14-acre (5.7 ha) native prairie remnant located in southwest Wisconsin, United States. Originally a dairy cow pasture, a hunter in 1989 discovered that it was home to an abundance of rare plant species . [ 1 ]
Pediomelum esculentum, synonym Psoralea esculenta, [2] common name prairie turnip or timpsula, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to prairies and dry woodlands of central North America, which bears a starchy tuberous root edible as a root vegetable.
Liatris spicata, the dense blazing star, prairie feather, gayfeather [1] or button snakewort, [2] is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to eastern North America [ 3 ] where it grows in moist prairies and sedge meadows.
Trillium recurvatum, the prairie trillium, [3] toadshade, [4] or bloody butcher, [5] is a species of perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. [3] [5] It is native to parts of central and eastern United States, where it is found from Iowa south to Texas and east to North Carolina and Pennsylvania.