May is a great time to visit the Prairie, a sea of green grasses sprinkled with red, purple and cream-colored blossoms of Indian paintbrush, arrow-leaved violet and cream wild indigo. Summer brings a constant succession of flowers from pale purple coneflower to rattlesnake master, gayfeather and butterfly milkweed. Regal fritillary butterflies float from flower to flower in search of nectar, while slender glass lizards bask in the warm sunlight. Dickcissels, sedge wrens and Henslow’s sparrows nest among the plants.
A visit to their web site http://mostateparks.com/park/prairie-state-park, will give you driving directions and a list and dates of the many guided tours you may take while there.
When you go, tell the Park attendant that you read about them through my blog!
Until next time….
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