🌾 Prairie Power: How Grasslands Help Our World 🌎

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a fall photo of native prairie: lots of yellow blossom flowers (swamp sunflower) and tall grass called big bluestem (has a reddish brown appearance & can be between 5-6 feet tall)

A prairie restoration field with swamp sunflower and big bluestem grasses.
#nativeprairie #sunflowers

Turning our huge front yard into #nativeprairie #pollinatorgarden was the best decision! I can't help but smile every time I look upon the numerous flowers and seeing lots of bees and butterflies come visit ☺️

Note how tall it is, 10 to 12 feet when well established. So the flowers would reach above the six foot prairie grass where the pollinators are.
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Native prairie plants in bloom.

A native prairie in bloom on a hazy day

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Photo of Midwest prairie grasses on a land that has never been machine tilled

This photo may look like a bunch of green grass, but look close and there are hundreds of flowers and a whole bunch of pollinators. Finding a patch of never-tilled prairie is a rare and wonderful joy #nativeprairie #biodiversity

Baby praying mantis clinging upside down to a narrow bright green leaf. The mantis' thorax is curved in a half circle. Its arms are cocked and ready to grab a small insect.

Super excited to see this little guy hanging out in my yard!

#nativeprairie #prayingmantis

The very green field is a year-old, 8-acre native prairie. The brown fields are soybean fields. This is what natural, ecosystem-supporting carbon sequestration looks like.

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New native plants 🌱🌱 for the garden arrived today! 🥰 Sneezeweed 🌼 & Cardinal Flower - should have some happy 🐝🐝🐝s and 🦋🦋🦋s next year! 🥰
#artistsgarden #nativeprairie

Year 2 of a Tallgrass Prairie Dream in Iowa: An Update

Here’s a look at some of the native plants I was able to easily identify in mid-May.

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It’s Texas Wildflower Season All Year Long Picture-perfect flowers bloom throughout every season, from Dallas-Fort Worthprairies to the coastal plains

I have a featured photo essay on Texas' amazing prairies and pocket parks in this month's issue of Texas Highways Magazine.
#blacklandprairie #nativeprairie #nature_tx #texas #texasecosystems #texasparkswildlife
#texasprairie #texaswildflowers

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A field of lush green grasses is home to tall stalks of sprouting, pale lavender flowerstalks. The grasses grow out of focus into the background, where a hillock is covered in trees.

Wild hyacinth, near White Rock Lake - Dallas, TX

#bloomtime #flower #nativeprairie #northtexas #spring #wildflower

Mixed theme - dogs & tallgrass prairies. I took this one in the backyard in the spring when the many tallgrass prairie plants we have planted were at ease being green. While he seemingly has an air of wise, don't be fooled. He is a simple-minded lovable goof. #nativeprairie #dogsofbluesky #dogs

My brother-in-law lifting up a bouquet of dead baptisia, or false indigo, stems and leaves, as he stands on a path through a field of prairie grasses.

“This earth is not, then, a mere fragment of dead history, strata upon strata, like the leaves of a book, an object for a museum and an antiquarian, but living poetry, like the leaves of a tree…”

— Henry Thoreau, 1854

#thoreau #earth #thelivingearth #poetry #wisconsin #nativeprairie #walking

Leave a lawn or leave a legacy? #nativeplants #nativeprairie #climatechange #globalwarming #geneticdiversity #sustainability #wearenature #restoration

Our legacy begins with a seed … #nativeseeds #nativeplants #northamerica #wisconsin #restoration #nativeprairie