Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on May 21, 2017, in Kansas, May, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged bat, beaver, bluegrass, bobcat, brome, chigger, cottonwood, daisy fleabane, fescue, garter snake, hackberry butterfly, hoary puccoon, junegrass, mulberry, mushroom, muskrat, nighthawk, oxeye daisy, prairie parsley, prairie phlox, ringneck snake, skink, skunk, snake, spiderwort, spittlebug, tadpole, turtle, white wild indigo, wild alfalfa, woodchuck, yarrow. Leave a comment

May 8 – 14, 2017 Kaw Valley Almanac

May7

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This entry was posted on May 7, 2017, in Kansas, May, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged antelopehorn milkweed, brome, cattail, chuck will's widow, cottonwood, daisy fleabane, evening primrose, fescue, gooseberries, Kentucky bluegrass, lightning bug, mulberries, new jersey tea, oxeye daisy, pine, pocket gopher, spiderwort, verbena, wheat, whippoorwill, wild strawberries, yarrow, yellow sweet clover. Leave a comment

April 3 – 9, 2017 Kaw Valley Almanac

Apr2

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This entry was posted on April 2, 2017, in April, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged apple-cedar rust, bluegrass, brome, butterfly, cottonwood, cutleaf toothwort, dutchman's breeches, false rue anemone, fescue, flowering plum, hoary puccoon, lilac, May apple, migratory birds, mole, morel, nesting, papaw, pocket gopher, redbud, rue anemone, skunk, Trout lily, wild cherry, woodchuck, yellow woodland violet. Leave a comment

January 2 – 8, 2017 Kaw Valley Almanac

Jan1

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This entry was posted on January 1, 2017, in January, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged beetle, bristly greenbriar, cottonwood, cricket, daisy, grasshoppers, moss, moth, mullein, osage orange, squirrels, wild garlic, wild onion. Leave a comment

April 11 – 17 Kaw Valley Almanac

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April 11, 2016

This entry was posted on April 10, 2016, in April, Kansas, nature observation, Prairie and tagged cherry, coralberry, cottonwood, dogwood, hackberry, hoary puccoon, Honey locust, honeysuckle, morel, papaw, prairie violet, privet, skunkbush, spring beauty, Trout lily, wild turkey. Leave a comment

July 13 – 19, 2015 Kaw Valley Almanac

Jul12

This entry was posted on July 12, 2015, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged beebalm, Canadian musk thistle, compassplant, cottonwood, crown vetch, culver's root, daisy fleabane, eastern gamagrass, foxtail, gray coneflower, milkweed, queen anne's lace, rattlesnakemaster, sideoats grama, sumac, teasel. Leave a comment

April 13 – 19, 2015 Kaw Valley Almanac

Apr12

This entry was posted on April 12, 2015, in April, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged buckbrush, buckeye, cottonwood, cutleaf toothwort, false rue anemone, gooseberry, honeysuckle, ironwood, morel, papaw, prairie burn, rainbow, redbud, rue anemone, tick, Trout lily, violet, western chorus frog, Wild Douglas County. Leave a comment

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Ken Lassman has been keeping this almanac for over a decade, He invites you to share your observations and photos in the comments section. You can find his book Wild Douglas County at The Raven Bookstore and The Community Mercantile in Lawrence.

Yellow Flower Moon – August

Thoreau noticed how many of the flowers of August and September resemble the beaming sun. So did the Osage Indians of this area, who named the moon for this observation.

“Yellow is very definitely the color of August; even the bluestem seems gold-washed at a distance, especially when blooming. Thought thistles and other flowers are the pastel blue and lavender, the sunflowers and the prairie goldenrods are glowing yellow. Yellow butterflies predominate, and the brilliant yellow goldfinch comes to the ridges to tear at the thistle and to find something in the hear of the sunflower.” -The Osages, p. 109, by John Joseph Mathews