Dodecatheon meadia blooming in burnt prairie.
Yellow flowers are Lithospermum canescens.
Photo by Paul Francuch

Roses dominant in June. This scene taken from east fence toward the Interpretation Center.

Veronicastrum virginicum, Eryngium yuccifolium, (white), Liatris spicata (purple) and Silphium laciniatum and S. terebinthinaceum (yellow).

The prairie in late June. Taken from Interpretation Center roof toward east. Don Gustafson is barefly visible in center of the prairie along the trail.

Woodworth in November.
After the frost the plants stop photosynthesis but much material remains above ground to provide fuel for a prairie burn. Photo by Frank Mayfied.

Genetiana puberulenta is one of the prettiest features of September and October. Photo by Evelyn Pease Tyner.

Snow rarely covers all the remaining plant material.

The Milwaukee swale, an ephemeral pond, filled to its maximum extent.

Some winters the Milwaukee swale remains dry.

Water in Center swale is visible where a fire break was mowed thru the swale.

Rainpost, an ephemeral wetland that is only 10 cm deep and has a very short hydroperiod.

Rainpost, was completely dry at time of this burn. Light colored mound madeby crayfish.