Old fields, open meadows and weedy roadsides are common but native prairies are not. These are flowers that are commonly found in remnant native prairies in Minnesota, prairies that now exist much as they did 200 or more years ago, before the time of settlement by pioneers and farmers.
 False
Sunflower |
 Bee
on a Toothed Evening Primrose |
 Prairie
Lily |
 Purple
Coneflower |
 Coneflower |
 Prairie
Smoke covered with morning dew |
 Pasture
Rose |
The Prairie in Bloom: a motorcycle trip to some of Minnesota's last remaining prairies
Copyright ©1996 Judi Schiller, Richard Schiller
November 16, 1996