#prairie

Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent, and this is one of its markers. Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off. The taproot goes fifteen feet down into ground nobody has broken since before there was a state there. Some live close to a century. What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished? #BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Botany #Solarpunk 2/3

Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name — and how people once took a bearing on open ground with nothing else to sight on. Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September. #BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Solarpunk 1/3

#Prairie #Alberta #canada These concerns are highly relevant to Canada, particularly the Prairie provinces and southern Alberta, where climate-driven changes to the cryosphere are already affecting long-term water security https://natoassociation.ca/canadas-vanishing-ice-why-glacier-melt-matters/ #ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateReversal #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

We turned the lawn in our front yard into a little patch of prairie. Now we have monarchs and a wide range of other insects. And something is always blooming. #gardening #prairie #monarch #butterfly

Wild Larkspurs in the Puget Sound prairie region. Delphinium nuttallii. #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #delphinium #larkspur #pnw #prairie