Narrow-leaf Purple Coneflower’s characteristic drooping pink-purple ray petals surrounding a spiny brown cone. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Echinacea angustifolia, commonly known as Narrow-leaf
Dotted Gayfeather’s vivid purple flower spikes emerge from dry prairie in late summer. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Liatris punctata, commonly known as Dotted
Blue Grama displaying its iconic comb-shaped seed heads in late summer. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Bouteloua gracilis, commonly known as Blue Grama, is
Smooth Blue Aster in full fall bloom. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Symphyotrichum laeve (syn. Aster laevis), commonly known as
Rocky Mountain Juniper — the iconic native evergreen of the Rocky Mountain foothills and dry plains of the West. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Plains Cottonwood growing along a river corridor — the defining tree of the Great Plains riparian landscape. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Populus deltoides
A Mallow Ninebark (Physocarpus malvaceus) shrub in full spring bloom, covered with dense clusters of white flowers. Photo: Thayne Tuason (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons
Spiny Phlox — one of the earliest wildflowers of the spring prairie, covering itself in a sheet of white to lavender blooms. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Scarlet Globemallow lights up dry prairies and roadsides with its brilliant orange-red blooms. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Sphaeralcea coccinea, commonly known as Scarlet
Plains Pricklypear in full bloom — brilliantly colored flowers light up the summer prairie. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Opuntia polyacantha, commonly known as
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