News Release: US Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Removing Tennessee Coneflower from Endangered Species List

An article from Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA): Tennessee Coneflower Proposed for Delisting The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed removing the Tennessee Coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis) from the list of threatened and endangered species, marking the success of a decades-long cooperative conservation effort under the Endangered Species Act.  The rule was published in today’s Federal [...]

Video: Visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord Grass

We have annual, free Prairie Tours each summer.  In this short video, visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord Grass. [Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery] The really tall ones are the Silphium terebinthinaceum; Prairie Dock. That’s the one with the true elephant ear type leaves. The really tall [...]

Hard Virtue

Most sales jobs seem to involve, at least to some degree, the overstatement of a product’s attributes in order to stimulate prospective buyers’ desires. TV commercials and advertising of all stripes routinely rely on hyperbole to promote the belief that the touted goods or services can deliver satisfaction of a nearly spiritual nature. By contrast, [...]

A ‘Convenient’ Rain Garden

I went to the Kwik Trip convenience store/gas station on Cass Street in La Crosse, WI the other day to buy a paper (some people do still read those things) and, coming out, I saw Purple Coneflowers.  I thought, “Well, that’s nice. Someone is planting some nice wildflowers here.”  As I looked closer I saw [...]

The Carnivorous Cup Plant!

The Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum) is starting to bloom now.  We’ve had a very wet, hot summer so far here in Southeast Minnesota and the Cup Plant is responding wonderfully!  It’s a unique native plant for many reasons and I feel it deserves more attention! Cup Plant is so named because its large broad leaves [...]

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