Summer Prairie Plants
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digital color photograph
Born digital
Photographic image
2004 – 2012
A chart with twenty close-up images of summer prairie plants at The Morton Arboretum. The plants listed are:
- Allium cernuum Roth. (nodding wild onion)
- Amorpha canescens Pursh (leadplant)
- Asclepias tuberosa L. (butterfly weed)
- Baptisia alba var. macrophylla (Larisey) Isley (white wild indigo) - labeled as Baptisia leucantha
- Arnoglossum atriplicifolium (L.) H.Rob. (pale Indian-plantain) - labeled as Cacalia atriplicifolia
- Ceanothus americanus L. (New Jersey-tea)
- Coreopsis palmata Nutt. (prairie coreopsis)
- Dalea candida Michx. ex Willd. (white prairie-clover)
- Dalea purpurea Vent. (purple prairie-clover)Daphne (daphne)
- Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt. (pale purple coneflower)
- Euphorbia corollata L. (flowering spurge)
- Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) Schultes (June grass) - labeled Koeleria cristata
- Lilium michiganense Farw. (Michigan lily)
- Monarda fistulosa L. (wild bergamot)
- Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart (yellow coneflower)
- Rudbeckia hirta L. (black-eyed Susan)
- Silphium laciniatum L. (compass plant)
- Silphium terebinthinaceum Jacq. (prairie dock)
- Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth (porcupine grass) - labeled Stipa spartea
- Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farw. (Culver’s root)
