NW Prairie Celebrates 16th Year
The NW Ecology Club started this prairie, which is located in the Northeast corner of the school grounds, in 1995. With aid from a grant from the Iowa Living Roadway Trust Fund, the prairie nearly doubled in size in 2009. The prairie consists of over 80 different varities of of native flowers and grasses. See the list below the photos for all of the plants which have been identified in the prairie. Yes, we now have biodiversity!
Amethyst shooting star, Angelica Arrowleaf violet, Baldwin's ironweed, Big bluestem, Black-eyed susan, Blue flag iris, Blue vervain, Brown-eyed susan, Butterfly milkweed, Canada anemone, Canada goldenrod, Canada wild rye grass, Cardinal flower, Common blue violet, Common ironweed, Common milkweed, Common oxeye, Compass plant, Cream wild indigo, Cup plant, Cutleaf toothwort, Daisy fleabane, Dotted St. John's wort, Downy gentian, Drummond's aster, False dragonhead, False indigo, False sunflower, Foxglove beardtongue, Frost aster, Gray-headed coneflower, Hairy wood mint, Hoary vervain, Indian grass, Indigo bush, Large-flowered beard tongue, Lead plant, Little bluestem, Maximilian sunflower, Michigan lilly, Midland shooting star, New England aster, Obedient plant, Ohio spiderwort, Pale purple coneflower, Pale spiked lobelia, Pale touch-me-not, Panicled aster, Partridge pea, Prairie blazing star, prairie blue-eyed grass, Prairie coreopsis, Prairie dropseed, Prairie lilly, Prairie phlox, Prairie sage, Purple prairie clover, Rattlesnake master, Round-headed bush clover, Showy tick trefoil, Side oats gramma, Sky blue aster, Slender Mountain Mint, Spotted Joe Pye Weed, Spotted touch-me-not, Swamp buttercup, Swamp milkweed, Tall coreopsis, Tall goldenrod, Western ironweed, Wild bergamot, Wild garlic, Wild hyacinth, Wild mint, Wild petunia, Wild Sweet William, Yarrow, Yellow Jewell, Yellow star grass
Ecology Club Members spreading the seeds for the prairie expansion in 2009.
