Visit Wolf Road Prairie

-- the Virtual Tour
-- the Real Thing


Learn About the Prairie

Take Action to Save Natural Areas

Kids in Action

Teachers' Corner

Save the Prairie Society
10 Most Unwanted Plants
Wild parsnip

Wanted for skin poisoning

Don't touch the pretty yellow blossoms or interesting leaves. This plant will cause burns on sensitive skin!

The blossoms are yellow.
The leaves are green

Canada thistle
Cut-leaved teasel
European buckthorn
Garlic mustard
Gray dogwood
Multiflora rose
Purple loosestrife
Reed canary grass
White sweet clover




drawing by Elizabeth Plonka