• Wind Cave National Park - Two Worlds

    Wind Cave

    National Park South Dakota

Grasses - Canada Wild Rye

Canada Wild Rye - Elymus canadensis
Canada Wild Rye - Elymus canadensis
NPS Photo by Jim Pisarowicz
 
Canada Wild Rye is good forage prior to flowering.  The Lakota name for Canada Wild Rye means "makes mouth of buffalo cow gray."

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boxwork

Wind Cave is one of the longest caves in the world and has an amazing amount of a rare cave formation called boxwork. More...