Prairie Word Hoard

• Sward: a bunch of grass, tillers tightly grown together to look neat and tidy
• Glume: each of two membranous bracts surrounding the spikelet of a grass (forming the husk of a cereal grain) or one surrounding the florets of a sedge (a leaf like structure below a spikelet in the inflorescence)
• An inflorescence: A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.
• Forb
• Fens
• Sedge
• Sphagnum
• Milkweed
• Rain shadow
• Mesic prairies
• Moraine
• Switchgrass
• Slough
• Pappus: Silky fluff of milkweed seeds
• Meadowlark, Western/Eastern
• Prairie Falcon
• Merlin
• Cliff Swallow
• Blazing Star Borer Moth
• Handsome Grasshopper
• Leonard’s Skipper Butterfly
• A prairie mosaic: https://prairieecologist.com/2016/03/08/prairie-word-of-the-day-shifting-mosaic-of-habitat/