Buffalo Ridge Prairie – 2018

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Buffalo Ridge Prairie page.]

1/6/2018

 

1/18/2018

 

2/13/2018  Mike plowed a path in the snow so we could walk.  It worked for a while, until the snow got too deep.

 

2/21/2018

 

5/31/2018  Indian Paintbrush

 

6/14/2018  Northern Bedstraw and Spiderwort

 

7/1/2018  Butterfly Milkweed and Oxeye

 

7/10/2018  Oxeye

 

7/11/2018  White Wild Indigo, Culver’s Root, Oxeye, Butterfly Milkweed, and Monarda

 

7/18/2018  Hoary Vervain, Culver’s Root, Monarda, Mountain Mint, and Oxeye

 

7/18/2018  This part of Buffalo Ridge has a large, dense population of Oxeye.

 

7/18/2018

 

7/18/2018  Oxeye, Yellow Coneflower, Monarda

 

7/28/2018

 

8/15/2018

 

8/19/2018

 

8/25/2018

 

9/14/2018

 

10/27/2018

 

11/2/2018  Mike mowed the trail extra wide this fall, so it would be easier to plow the snow during the winter.

 

11/7/2018

 

12/10/2018  Our plowed path

 

12/17/2018