Plant A Day – new location

All,

I’ve decided to move my Plant A Day blog to Blogger since it has some features that I was looking for and WordPress doesn’t have them.  It will provide a list of all of the posts along the side, and it has a search function, so you could look up a plant if you want.

So, go to http://indianaplantaday.blogspot.com/ to continue watching my progress!

Enjoy,

Paul

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Plant A Day – Upright Prairie Coneflower

Upright Prairie Coneflower Ratibida columnifera

Upright Prairie Coneflower
Ratibida columnifera

There are two representatives of the Ratibida genus in Indiana, this and Pinnate Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata), also known as Gray-headed Coneflower.

This species is more of a western plains plant and is rarely found in Indiana.  It is quite showy and occasionally ends up in prairie restorations in Indiana, but probably shouldn’t be.

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