Prairie Road in Bloom

In June, the prairie starts showing the colors of the summer flowers and is filled with butterflies and dragonflies.

A Monarch Butterfly feeding on a Common Milkweed bloom.


Showy Tick Trefoil in bloom.


A Great Spangled Fritillary preferred the milkweed blossoms.


Cup Plants, Coneflowers, Spiderwort, Butterfly Milkweed, Deptford Pinks and Black-eyed Susans were starting to bloom.
















A Painted Lady Butterfly seemed to prefer the Cup Plant flowers.