Friends hiked one of the main ridges along the southwest border and discovered the following native prairie plants: Lambert’s Crazy Weed, Missouri Milk Vetch, Ground Plum, Scarlet Gaura, Purple Coneflower, Stiff Goldenrod, Purple Prairie Clover, Yucca, Skeleton Weed Pussytoes, Equisetum, Toothed Primrose, Penstemon, Silky aster, Heath aster, Scribner’s Panicum, Lead Plant.
The DNR will develop a management plan which will spell out appropriate uses for the new area, establish rules, and identify critical resources.
