Tag: Prairie

• Thelma Carpenter Prairie, Nachusa Grasslands, 4/18/2026 Flowers, Badger Mound Succession, and Red Clover

  

  Contents Introduction Fire Intensity Maps Images From Site 1. Bison in Distance (South Lowden Road) 2. Sign 3. Prairie Violet (Viola pedatifida) 4. Hoary Puccoon (Lithospermum canescens) 5. Pasture Thistle (Cirsium discolor) 6. Thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica) 7. Arrowleaf Violet (Viola sagittata) 8. Bird’s-foot Violet (Viola pedata) 9. Early Buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis) 10. False Toadflax (Comandra…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  April 27, 2026

  Badger Mound Succession, Ecological Restoration, Flowers, Red Clover, Uncategorized

  Badger Mounds, Flowers, photography, Prairie, Red Clover, Succession, travel

• Drought Impacts on Prairie Plants

  

  Drought impacts on prairie plants at the Shoe Factory Road Nature Preserve in Poplar Creek are shown.

  jamesandrewmcgee

  October 10, 2024

  ecology, Uncategorized

  Drought, environment, native-plants, nature, Poplar Creek Forest Preserve, Prairie

• Spring Creek, Healy Savanna, 8/16/2023 and 8/17/2023

  

  In this post, I visit Healy Savanna. Healy Savanna has prairie areas on top of the ridge, savanna areas into the oak trees, and on the steep eastern facing slope woodland species. Healy Savanna can be accessed by hiking north from the Beverly Lake parking lot. The Beverly Lake parking lot is known for illicit…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  October 4, 2023

  Uncategorized

  Asian Bush Honeysuckle, Brush Mowing, Brush Piles, Burn Scar, Chokecherry, Common Buckthorn, Common Mullein, Ecological Restoration, Healy Savanna, Herbicide, Invasive Species, Native Casualty, Phytolacca americana, Pokeweed, Prairie, Rhamnus cathcartica, savanna, Spring Creek Forest Preserve, Spring Lake Forest Preserve, The Corridor, Verbascum thapsus