/tags/prairie-flora/ Recent content in prairie flora on Rootstalk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/ottenstein/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/ottenstein/ On the Canadian prairie in southern Saskatchewan and Alberta, one is acutely aware of three basic elements—land, wind and sky—for often, that is all there is. In June of 2019 I spent three weeks photographing in this vast prairie region. Similar to the Midwestern prairie, the land was sometimes flat, but frequently comprised of rolling hills, and there was often a strong, steady wind. I experienced expansive open space, a stillness that induced a reassuring sense of solitude, and an enormous sky filled most of the time with a dramatic array of cloud formations ranging from towering cumulonimbus to delicate cirrus clouds. /past-issues/volume-v-issue-2/clarke-curtis/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /past-issues/volume-v-issue-2/clarke-curtis/ console.log("Debugging in figure_azure.html. PID: Clarke1.jpg"); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. width: '); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. height: '); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. maxwidth: 200'); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. alt: '); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. caption: **Snow trillium** (Trillium nivale) or dwarf white trillium, is a member of the Melanthiaceae family, and is native to parts of the Eastern and Midwestern United States, primarily the Great Lakes States, the Ohio Valley, and the Upper Mississippi Valley. The species is one of the earliest flowers to bloom in spring. /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/taylor/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/taylor/ The North American prairie extends from southern Canada all the way down into Central Texas. Texas’s prairie includes the Hill Country, which is a very dry shortgrass prairie and, a little farther to the east, the Blackland Prairie, a very rich, dark-soiled, temperate shrubland. The city of San Marcos sits on, and I-35 runs along, the fault line that divides those two types of prairie. Craig Taylor, our Associate Editor Zeke Taylor’s uncle, has lived outside of San Marcos and watched the area change for nearly 30 years.