Lush (prairie)

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kgd

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Took the dogs for a walk this morning in Ojibway prairie. Trying to recover from teaching my field course. It was a wet wet spring this year and has lead to an incredibly lush prairie. Enjoy the green!

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beautiful area, very green.

i like those red flower things, they make the whole thing almost look like christmas.
 
Hi Siguy, those small trees are sumac (not poison sumac). The cones can be boiled to make a nice vit-C rich tea.

Edit: it was about 80% humidity and a good rainfall now is dropping the temperature and humidity. The dogs were pretty beat by the end of the walk :)
 
Thanks for the green :D Lush indeed. I'm a big fan of sumac "lemonade" and those are the deepest red I've ever seen.
 
Wow, kgd. It hasn't rained here on the wet coast in quite a while, sunny and pushing the high 20's every day. The undergrowth is actually looking pretty bare - I was wondering where the green went !
 
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In the first picture, it looks like Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) - a wild tea, (the purple flowers lower left corner), and in the second is Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) - a Milkweed. There should be good cordage fibres in the stalk, but I can't remember if I've ever tried Butterfly Weed for cordage. Have you?

It was used as a medicinal plant by early peoples.

In the winter, when I'm out hiking, I pick a dead head of Wild Bergamot, crush it and smell it - reminds me of summer.

Doc
 
Hi Doc,

Thanks for the information. There were a pile or rasberries out there just starting to ripen. You should come down here to Windsor for a day or two sometime. The prairie and Pt. Pelee Nat'l Park are a Canadian botanist's dream with some of the highest plant diversity in Ontario.
 
DOC-CANADA said:
In the first picture, it looks like Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) - a wild tea, (the purple flowers lower left corner), and in the second is Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) - a Milkweed. There should be good cordage fibres in the stalk, but I can't remember if I've ever tried Butterfly Weed for cordage. Have you?

It was used as a medicinal plant by early peoples.

In the winter, when I'm out hiking, I pick a dead head of Wild Bergamot, crush it and smell it - reminds me of summer.

Doc
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Dang DOC. I wish I had half the plant knowlage you have. I would have you tutor me if I wasnt so dang far:(
 
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