
Cooper’s Milkvetch
Its striking clusters of large inflated pods are a beautiful pale yellow blushed with red.
Its striking clusters of large inflated pods are a beautiful pale yellow blushed with red.
Stiff goldenrod is one of the relatively few prairie plants that seems to attract more attention when it’s not flowering.
The magenta-coloured flowers are the most beautiful of all the asters.
The flowers provide a late-season nectar source for a wide range of insects.
Plants have a sweet black licorice scent and flavour and make wonderful tea and medicine.
Prairie birds, such as the clay-colored sparrow, often conceal their nests in the dense branches and foliage.
Smooth aster brings welcomed colour and an important source of pollen/nectar to the late summer/fall landscape.