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Grassland flowers Seeds that stick
If you walk through a field
where agrimony has just finished
In days gone by, fields and open grassy spaces flowering, you may help it to spread.
Agrimony’s hooked seeds will cling
were often full of wild flowers. However, after to your clothes if you brush past them.
tractors and weedkillers were invented,
many wild flowers were plowed up, or
killed by poisonous sprays. Grassland The prairies of North America used
flowers still survive, but in special to be filled with wild flowers. When the
prairies were turned into farmland,
places. Look for them in old many wild flowers disappeared.
pastures, on roadsides, around
the edges of fields, and on Agrimony flowers
steep banks and slopes. grow on a long stem.
From prairie to garden
Coneflowers get their name
Nodding bells because their petals point slightly
The harebell’ s light blue Holding its ground downward, giving the flowers a
flowers look like tiny bells Yarrow is a very tough pointed shape. Coneflowers are
as they nod in the wind. grassland plant. It can survive often grown in gardens—look
Harebells thrive in rough being cut by a lawnmower, and for their flowers in late summer.
pastures where the it even thrives by the sides of roads.
soil is shallow.
Yarrow and poppies in a field
Harebell flowers
grow on long,
thin stalks.
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