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Grassland Plants By: Audrey This is the Blazing Star. It has purple spikes, it usually grows to five feet in height. The Blazing Star resembles something like the Thistle and grows well in full sun. https://www.directgardening.com/493-bulbs/6213-blazing-starsliatris#/quantity-40 This flower is the Shooting Star. The petals on the Shooting Star grow backwards and up, away from center of the flower. http://www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/tablerock/table-rockplants-chaparral.php Another plant is the Spiderwort. These flowers only remain open for a day, blooming in the morning and closing at night. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spiderwort_%28Tradescantia_v irginiana%29,_Roundhay_Park.jpg One of the plants on the grassland prairies is the Rattlesnake Master. The Rattlesnake Master is part of the yucca family. http://www.prairiehaven.com/?p=3684 Another plant is Culver’s Root. Culver’s Root is usually five feet tall and has no branches until you get to where the flowers are. https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/page/glossary One plant is the New England Aster. It’s color can range from lavender to blue and white. http://www.microscopyuk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopyuk.org.uk/mag/artdec03/bjaster.html This is the Compass Plant. These plants can grown to be eight feet tall! http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/compassx.htm One plant that I found is the Wild Bergamot. It’s leaves are commonly used to make mint tea, also the oil from the leaves can be used to treat respiratory ailments. https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/wild-bergamot This plant is the Stiff Goldenrod. This plant attracts bees and butterflies. http://grownative.org/native-plant-info/seedling-identification/stiffgoldenrod/ This is Mountain Mint. It attracts bees, butterflies, wasps, and moths! http://www.abnativeplants.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/plants.plantDetail /plant_id/72/index.htm Adaptations The growing point of most prairie plants is underground so if there is a fire and it gets destroyed it can re-grow. Many prairie plants have roots that grow very far into the ground to absorb more moisture in case of a drought. Brightly colored flowers attract pollinators such as bees. Adaptations Native Prairie plants grow in clumps. Abotic factors such as soil, sunlight, and climate Soil When a fire breaks out in the prairie the ashes from other dead plants get returned to the soil and returning nutrients that the other plants need. There are 3 main types of soil in the grassland prairies there is the wet soil, the mesic soil, and the dry soil. Many plants that live in the wet soil need the most water, then the plants in the mesic soil, and finally the plants in the dry soil need the least amount of water. The grassland prairies are very fertile and that’s why so many plants live there. Sunlight When fire erupts in the prairie and the tall grasses die, it gives the sun to hit the black soil and start growing more grass. There is so much grass that the sun doesn’t get to hit the soil very often. Climate In the winter the average temperature is 11-15 degrees Fahrenheit. In winter some of the many grasses in the prairie act like a frog in the winter, in it’s “body” a form of sugar is increased in the winter and keeps it warm and it doesn’t freeze. Sources Climate: http://wildmontana.org/blog/winter-arrives-to-montanas-prairiewildlands Sunlight: http://www.tallgrass.org/plants/ Soil: http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/prairie.htm