Last updated: November 12, 2024
Place
Who Grows There? - wayside exhibit
NPS/Robert Hartwig
Quick Facts
Location:
Homestead National Historical Park
Designation:
wayside exhibit
Amenities
2 listed
Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Information
A guide to several native plants of the tallgrass prairie.
Plants in the first half of book inlcude:
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaco), Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticillata), White Sage (Artemisia ludoviciana), Heath Aster (Aster ericoides), False Boneset (Brickellia eupatorioides), Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), Hairy Hawkweed (Hieracium longipilum), Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera), Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera), Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum), Late Goldenrod (Solidago gigantea), Stiff Goldenrod (Solidago rigida), Baldwin's Ironweed (Vernonia baldwinii), Prairie Spiderwort (Tradescantia bracteata), Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens), Canadian Milkvetch (Astragalus canadensis), Plains Wild Indigo (Baptisia leucophaea), and Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata).
This guide is divided into two places in order to fully capture its audio description.
Plants in the first half of book inlcude:
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaco), Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticillata), White Sage (Artemisia ludoviciana), Heath Aster (Aster ericoides), False Boneset (Brickellia eupatorioides), Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), Hairy Hawkweed (Hieracium longipilum), Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera), Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera), Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum), Late Goldenrod (Solidago gigantea), Stiff Goldenrod (Solidago rigida), Baldwin's Ironweed (Vernonia baldwinii), Prairie Spiderwort (Tradescantia bracteata), Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens), Canadian Milkvetch (Astragalus canadensis), Plains Wild Indigo (Baptisia leucophaea), and Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata).
This guide is divided into two places in order to fully capture its audio description.