This Labor Day weekend is going to be great for wildflowers across the Chicago region. The preserves are turning gold while others have turned purple with the blooms of rough blazing star.

This is another wonderful week for wildflowers! Take a prairie tour Wolf Road Prairie’s Annual Prairie Fest. And visit the prairies around Chicago for rough blazing star, obedient plant, towering prairie dock, the even taller sawtooth sunflower, and much more.

Pale purple coneflowers are gracing our prairies. And learn about the strange and wonderful porcupine grass seed that drills itself into the soil.

Pale purple coneflowers are gracing our prairies. And learn about the strange and wonderful porcupine grass seed that drills itself into the soil.

Pale purple coneflowers are gracing our prairies. And learn about the strange and wonderful porcupine grass seed that drills itself into the soil.

Pale purple coneflowers are gracing our prairies. And learn about the strange and wonderful porcupine grass seed that drills itself into the soil.