Black Dog Prairie
This is a beautiful steep prairie remnant on a hill that faces south-west. I visited it in August 2009, and found lots of prairie plants.
This is a view up toward the prairie from below - actually quite a steep slope.
There are birch trees and bushes on the slope leading up to the steepest part of the prairie.
This is the steepest part - lots of dry prairie plants.
Cliff Goldenrod - a plant that's on the Special Concern list for Wisconsin
The view down the valley from the prairie.
Walking down the side of the point
This is a list of the plants I saw:
Flowers
Ambrosia artemisifolia - Common Ragweed
Amorpha canescens - Lead Plant
Antennaria plantaginifolia - Plantain Pussy-toes
Artemisia campestris – Wormwood
Asclepias verticillata - Whorled Milkweed
Aster ericoides - Heath Aster
Aster oblongifolius - Aromatic aster
Aster oolentangiensis - Sky Blue Aster
Aster sericeus - Silky aster
Campanula rotundifolia – Harebell
Castilleja sessiliflora - Downy Yellow Painted Cup
Comandra umbellata - Bastard Toadflax
Coreopsis palmata - Prairie Coreopsis
Dalea purpurea - Purple Prairie Clover
Euphorbia corollata - Flowering spurge
Gnaphalium obtusifolium - Sweet Everlasting
Helianthemum bicknellii - Hoary Frostweed
Helianthus occidentalis – Western Sunflower
Kuhnia eupatorioides - False Boneset
Lespedeza capitata – Round-headed Bush Clover
Liatris cylindracea - Cylindrical Blazing Star
Linum sulcatum - Grooved Yellow Flax
Lithospermum incisum - Fringed Puccoon
Monarda fistulosa – Wild Bergamot
Physalis heterophylla – Clammy Ground Cherry
Scutellaria parvula – Small Skullcap
Solidago ptarmicoides – White Goldenrod
Solidago nemoralis – Gray Goldenrod
Solidago sciaphila - Cliff Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa - Showy Goldenrod
Grasses
Andropogon gerardii - Big Bluestem
Bouteloua curtipendula - Side-oats Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta - Hairy Grama
Bromus kalmii – Prairie Brome
Elymus trachycaulus – Slender Wheatgrass
Muhlenbergia cuspidata - Prairie Satin Grass
Schizachyrium scoparium - Little Bluestem
Sporobolus heterolepis - Prairie Dropseed
Shrubs & Trees
Ilex verticillata – Winterberry
Juniperus communis - Common Juniper
Juniperus virginiana - Eastern Red Cedar
Zanthoxylum americanum - Prickly Ash