
PRAIRIE PARKLAND
(TEMPERATE) PROVINCE
part of the Great Plains!

Prairie Parkland Province
Includes the partial parts of the states of:
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Illinois
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Iowa
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Missouri
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Indiana
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Kansas
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Minnesota
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Nebraska
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Oklahoma
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North Dakota
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South Dakota
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Continental climate with cold winters and hot summers.
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Moderate amounts of precipitation that occurs mainly during growing season.
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Mainly plains with areas of low hills, intermingled with dry and moist prairies, and deciduous trees found near water sources, with oak and hickory in abundance, as well as cottonwood and elm.
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Prairies consisting of medium height grasses: Big and little bluestem, switchgrass, and Indian grass. (These areas are much smaller due to farming and encroaching forests)
Flora and Fauna ...
Our geographical area, the Prairie Parkland/Temperate Province, in regards to beekeeping, creates some really wonderful honey, inspite of it's unique challenges (weather changes, for one).
This is by no means a complete listing of all the plantings that bees choose to visit throughout our growing seasons, and although beekeeping will not make you an entomologist, master gardner, or a meteorologist, you will gain more knowledge and be more aware of critters, plants and the weather changes in your environment ...
Bloom Time Beginning in MARCH

Phlox

Weeping Willow

Rhu Anemone

Henbit


Maple
Wild Indigo

Dandelion
Bloom Time Beginning in APRIL

Tickseed

Chokecherry Bloom


White Sumac

Wild Columbine
Bee Balm


Eastern Redbud

Box Elder
Wild Plum
Bloom Time Beginning in MAY
Beardtongue
Wild Blackberry





Violets
Wild Rose


Primrose
Queen Ann's Lace
Hawthorn

Black-eyed Susan
Bloom Time Beginning in JUNE




Spirea
Lead Plant
Red Prairie Coneflower
Purple Coneflower

Purple Prairie Clover

Common Milkweed
(Butterflies)
Bloom Time Beginning in JULY




Aster
Prairie Dock

Cardinal Flower
Buttonbush
Ironweed Plant

New Jersey Tea

Joe-Pye Weed

Bloom Time Beginning in AUGUST

Gentian

Goldenrod
Gayfeather