Butterfly milkweed and blue wild indigo
Add to Cart Add to Lightbox DownloadButterfly milkweed (orange flowers) and wild alfalfa are some of the wildflowers seen along the Fox Creek Trail in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Kansas Flint Hills. Butterfly milkweed is also known as pleurisy root. It was named this because American Indians and settlers used the plant's roots to treat respiratory illness. The 10,894-acre Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is located in Chase County near the towns of Strong City and Cottonwood Falls. Less than four percent of the original 140 million acres of tallgrass prairie remains in North America. Most of the remaining tallgrass prairie is in the Flint Hills in Kansas. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is the only unit of the National Park Service dedicated to the preservation of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is co-managed with The Nature Conservancy.
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