Key Species - Plants Of the hundreds of flowers, grasses, and forbs found in prairies, some are considered umbrella species critical to the health of the ecosystem. Compass Plants Butterfly Weed Fringed Prairie Orchid Blue Gentian Indian Bonnet Leadplant Big Bluestem Shooting Star Michigan Lily Blue Flag Iris Big Bluestem Evening Paintbrush Giant Sunflower Purple Coneflower Fringed Prairie Orchid Indian Grass Aster Shooting Stars Prairie Liatris Yellow Larkspur Wild Bergamot Spiderwort Milkweed Coneflowers Little Bluestem All images used on this site are Copyright 2015 by Birdman Productions unless specifically noted. Then they are used with specific permission of the photographer, David Seibel. No reproduction or copying in any form of any images without specific written permission.
Heath Hen After being a bountiful food source for a growing population for many years, the Heath Hen of the Northeast was the first to become extinct.
Attwater's Prairie Chicken Attwater's subspecies of the Greater Prairie Chicken has specific coastal habitat requirements that have rapidly disappeared.
Greater Prairie Chicken Today landscape level remnants of Tallgrass Prairie are shrinking rapidly and threatening our Greater Prairie Chicken.