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PO Box 16545 Portal, AZ 85632 Phone 520.558.1146 Toll free 866.900.1146 Fax 650.471.7667 Email [email protected]

Kansas Prairie Spring List Compiled by Tour Participants RWW and Jo Taylor

Locations: A 4/28 Dyck Arboretum B 4/29 Quivira Wildlife Preserve C 4/30 Mushroom Rock State Park D 5/1 Maxwell Game Preserve E 5/1 Tallgrass Prairie Preserve F 5/1 Cottonwood Falls Town Park

* indicates a sighting of a species new to us (*) indicates a sighting of a species that is infrequently seen by us

Garlic mustard (Alliaria officinalis) F * Blue funnel-lily (Androstephium coeruleum) C * Carolina anemone (Anemone caroliniana) C Pussytoes (Antennaria sp.) C Thyme-leaved sandwort (Arenaria serpyllifolia) C * Buffalo bean (Astragalus crassicarpus) E (*) Sea rocket (Cakile edentula) B Shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) C Pennsylvania bittercress (Cardamine pensylvanica) A Mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium vulgatum) A,C Virginia spring beauty (Claytonia virginica) C * Slender fumewort (Corydalis micrantha) C * Pinnate tansy mustard (Descurainia pinnata) E * Wedge- draba (Draba cuneifolia) E * Treacle mustard (Erysimum repandum) E Cleavers (Galium aparine) F * Small bluets (Houstonia pusilla) D

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* Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) A,B,C Purple dead nettle ( purpureum) F Wild peppergrass (Lepidium virginicum) A,E * Fringed puccoon (Lithospermum incisum) B,C (*) European gromwell (Lithospermum officinale) A,B,C * Wild parsley (Lomatium foeniculaceum) C Black medic (Medicago lupulina) C * False garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) E (*) Wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata) F Least crowfoot (Ranunculus abortivus) C * Golden currant (Ribes aureum) B,C (*) Creeping yellow cress (Rorippa sylvestris) B Curled dock (Rumex crispus) F (*) Tumble mustard (Sisymbrium altissimum) B * Red-seeded dandelion ( erythrospermum) C Common dandelion () A,B,F Corn speedwell (Veronica arvensis) A,C,E (*) Purslane speedwell (Veronica peregrina) E Field pansy (Viola kitaibeliana) C * Prairie violet (Viola pedatifida) C,D Golden alexanders (Zizea aurea) F

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