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Astragalus and Silphium plants in the Prairie Moon garden. <!--images/image_not_completed-->
Also known as Cassia herbecarpa, and often confused with Senna marilandica (southern senna), this plant is rarely found in mesic to wet savanna.
Also known as Veratrum virginicum, this is a rarely seen meadow plant.
This plant is rarely found on dry-mesic savanna.
Also seen here are Silene regia (royal catchfly) and
People looking at the plants in the Prairie Moon rare plants garden.
Looks like a storm is brewing.
This plant is closely related to Echincea pallida (pale purple coneflower) and might best to called E. pallida var. angustifolia (DC.) Cronq. It is native to the cedar glades of central Tennessee.
This white-flowered form of the species can rarely be found growing within otherwise normal populations. It is not, technically speaking, a cultivar.