Wildflowers and Grasses of Prairie Park

This list includes flowers and grasses photographed by students in their study in Prairie Park. Flowers are ordered by their color and their blooming date.

Grasses
Little Bluestem
Big Bluestem

Yellow Indiangrass
Switchgrass

Sideoats Grama
Blue Grama
Western Wheatgrass

White Flowers
Shepard's purse

White clover

Dewberry
Gooseberry
Wild Garlic Mustard
Yucca
Milkweed
Pokeweed
Western Yarrow
Boneset
Dotted Smartweed
White aster
Common Ragweed

Pink, Red or Brown
Henbit
Redbud tree
Musk Thistle
Tall Thistle
Red Clover
Sedem
Coneflower

Blue, Lavender, Violet or Purple
Blue Speedwell

Johnny-jump-up

Common violet

Wild violet

Pitcher Sage

Dayflower

Prairie Aster

Yellow or Orange
Common Dandelion

Yellowrocket

Daffodil

Common Mullein

Partridge Pea

Plains Coreopsis

Maximillian Sunflower

Common Sunflower

Missouri Goldenrod

Checklist of Trees and Shrubs in Prairie Park

This list includes native trees in addition to those planted in the park for windbreaks and ornamentals.

Red Cedar
Willow
Cottonwood
River Birch
Red Oak
Pin Oak
American Elm
Red Mulberry
Osage Orange
Sycamore
Honey Locust
Flowering Crab
Flowering Cherry
Bradford Pear
Dogwood
Autumn Ash
Marshall's Ash
Birch
Russian Olive
Hawthorn
Hazelnut
Shademaster Locust
Sunburst Locust
Norway Maple
Sugar Maple
Red Maple
Redbud
Austrian Pine
Peking Cotoneaster
Autumn Olive
Sumac
Wild Gooseberry
Blackberry
Dewberry
Green Briar
Moonseed
Bittersweet
Multiflora Rose
Poison Ivy

Checklist of Arachnids of Prairie Park

This is a list of photographed Arachnids of Prairie Park. All photographs are taken by students unless otherwise noted.

Grass spider

On trail in OWLS wooded area

Orb Spider

On Austrian Pine in OWLS windbreak

Golden Garden Spider

On Coreopsis in OWLS prairie area

Wolf Spider

Photo by teacher

Nursery Web Spider

Near OWLS pond, it might be a fishing spider.

Crab Spider

Daddylonglegs or Harvestman

Jumping spider

Checklist of Insects of Prairie Park

This list includes only insects that have been documented by photographs in the park. All photographs are by students unless otherwise noted.

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Order of Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata)
Whitetail Dragonfly


Order of Crickets, Grasshoppers and Katydids (Orthoptera)
Admirable Grasshopper

Redlegged Grasshopper

Field Cricket

Order of Termites (Isoptera)
Eastern Subterranean Termite

Order of True Bugs (Hemiptera)
Large Milkweed Bug

Order of Beetles (Coleoptera)

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Whiligig Beetles

Goldenrod Soldier Beetle

Lady Beetle

Order of Ants, Bees and Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Ants

Ant hill

Ants with larvae

Honeybee

Order of Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

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Painted Lady

Redspotted Purple

Eastern-tailed Blue

Cloudless sulphur

Monarch

Pearl Crescent

Red Admiral

Order of True Flies (Diptera)
House Fly

Checklist of Reptiles and Amphibians of Prairie Park

This list only includes animals actually sighted and photographed in the park. All photographs were taken by students in McLouth Prairie Park OWLS unless otherwise noted.

Bullfrog Rana catesbeiana

From OWLS pond Fall 2007

Plains Leopard Frog Rana blairi

This photo was taken near Bellville by teacher


Gray Treefrog Hyla versicolor

Taken along nature trail in OWLS

Western Chorus Frog Pseudarcris triseriata

Taken on prairie trail in OWLS

Common Snapping Turtle Chelydra sepentina septentina

Baby snapping turtle photo taken near OWLS pond

Western Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta bellii



In OWLS pond



Eastern Box Turtle Terrapene Carolina

Black Rat Snake Elaphe obsolete obsolete

Northern Water Snake Neridia sipedon sipedon

In OWLS pond. Students watched this snake for a long time.

Prairie Kingsnake Lampropeltis calligaster

Found near covered bench by the pond.

Eastern Plains Garter Snake Thamnophis radix radix



OK, this snake was dead, killed in the drive at Prairie Park.