Photo of a Western Red Lily plant.940
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Western Red Lily

Lilium philadelphicum L.

Photo of a Cut-leaved Anemone plant.355
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Cut-leaved Anemone

Anemone multifida Poir.

Photo of a Cut-leaved Anemone plant.355
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Cut-leaved Anemone

Anemone multifida Poir.

Photo of a Pink-flowered Onion plant.354
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Pink-flowered Onion

Allium stellatum Fraser

Photo of a Rough Agalinus plant.352
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Rough Agalinis

Agalinus aspera (Dougl. ex Benth.) Britt.

Photo of a Pink-flowered Onion plant.354
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Pink-flowered Onion

Allium stellatum Fraser

Photo of a Rough Agalinus plant.352
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Rough Agalinis

Agalinus aspera (Dougl. ex Benth.) Britt.

Photo of a Common Yarrow plant.351
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Common Yarrow

Achillea millefolium L.

Photo of a Common Yarrow plant.351
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Common Yarrow

Achillea millefolium L.

Photo of a Western Red Lily plant.940
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Western Red Lily

Lilium philadelphicum L.

Virtual Prairie Tours

An open field of plain prairie

Observe wild plants and pollinators in their natural habitats.

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Plant & Pollinator Gallery

Tour the wild plant and pollinator gallery to see photographs of important and rare species.


Photo of a preserved specimen of Protopiophila latipes side view.
Photo of a Daisy Fleabane plant.
Photo of a Blue-eyed Grass plant.
Photo of a Spotted Cucumber Beetle on a Nuttall's Sunflower head.
Photo of a Poweshiek Skipperling butterfly on a Black-eyed Susan flower head.
Photo of a Common Wood-nymph butterfly on thistle flower head.
Photo of a parasitic fly on yarrow flower heads.
Photo of a soldier beetle.
Photo of a Western Prairie Fringed Orchid plant.
Photo of a Tiny Cryptanthe plant.
Photo of a Swamp Milkweed plant.
Photo of a bee fly on a Western Silvery Aster flower head.
Photo of an American Vetch plant.

Photo of a Dotted Blazingstar plant.
Photo of a Dakota Skipper butterfly.
Photo of a Lindley's Aster plant with a bumblebee on it.
Photo of a Riddell's Goldenrod with flower flies and an ambush bug on its flowers.
Photo of a Poweshiek Skipperling butterfly on a Black-eyed Susan flower head.
Photo of a Yucca Moth on a Soapweed flower.
Photo of a parasitic fly on yarrow flower heads.
Photo of a Rough Agalinus plant.
Photo of a braconid wasp on a leaf.
Photo of Shining Flower Beetles on a thistle flower head.
Photo of a Yucca Moth on a Soapweed flower.
Photo of a Purple Coneflower plant.
Photo of a Meadow Blazingstar plant.
Photo of a Pink-flowered Onion plant.
Photo of a Smooth Fleabane plant.
Photo of a Heart-leaved Alexander plant.
Photo of a Dwarf Milkweed plant.
Photo of a Nuttall's Blister Beetle on milk-vetch flowers.
Photo of a Shrubby Cinquefoil plant.
Photo of a Saline Shootingstar plant.
Photo of a Gattinger's Agalinus plant.
Photo of a Mormon Metalmark butterfly on an aster flower head.
Photo of a Western Silvery Aster plant.
Photo of a Western Blue Flag plant.
Photo of an American Vetch plant.
Photo of a Prairie Rose plant.
Photo of a preserved specimen of a Grass Fly species, back view.
Photo of a Red-blue Checkered Beetle on a Common Yarrow flower head.
Photo of a Purple Milk-vetch plant.
Photo of a Silverleaf Psoralea plant.
Photo of a preserved specimen of Eugnoriste, back view.
Photo of a Smooth Aster plant.
Photo of a leafcutter bee on a Black-eyed Susan flower head.

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FUN FACT: Did you know… a ruby-throated hummingbird flaps its wings 53 times a second?
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FAQ

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Did you know... a ruby-throated hummingbird flaps its wings 53 times a second?