Field Guide to the Prairie

Glossary		Sioux/Dakota Prairie Terms
Plants	Birds	Herps	Insects	Mammals
Grasses Big Bluestem Blue Grama Grass Buffalo Grass Canada Wild Rye Indian Grass Johnsongrass June Grass Kentucky Bluegrass Little Bluestem Porcupine Grass Prairie Cordgrass Prairie Dropseed Quack Grass Side-Oats Grama Forbs Black-eyed Susan Common Spiderwort Field Bindweed Jewelweed Leafy Spurge Prairie Blazing Star Prickly Pear Cactus Purple Coneflower Purple prairie clover Western Prairie-fringed Orchid Wild Bergamot	Bald Eagle Burrowing Owl Canada Goose* Common Loon Common Snipe Ferruginous Hawk Golden Eagle Killdeer Long-billed Curlew Lesser Prairie Chicken Mallard Marsh Wren Northern Harrier Greater Prairie Chicken* Red-tailed Hawk Sandhill Crane* Short-eared Owl* Western Meadowlark *See it in the round with Quicktime VR!	American Toad Blanding's Turtle Canadian Toad Carpenter Frog Common Garter Snake Fox Snake Gopher Snake (Bullsnake) Great Plains Toad Lined Snake Northern Leopard Frog Pig Frog Plains Spadefoot Plains Garter Snake Poison Arrow Frog Prairie Skink Racer Western Hognose Snake Woodhouse's Toad	Argentine Ant Blister Beetle Bumble Bee Cabbage Butterfly Carrion Beetle Fire Ant Grasshopper Monarch Butterfly Seven-spotted Lady Beetle (Lady Bug) Tiger Beetle Western Tiger Swallowtail	Badger Black-footed Ferret Bison Black Bear Black-tailed Jackrabbit Coyote Eastern Cottontail Meadow Vole Northern Grasshopper Mouse Prairie Dog Pronghorn Red Fox Richardson's Ground Squirrel 13-lined Ground Squirrel Wolf White-tailed Jackrabbit
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