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Wind Cave National Park
Wildflowers - Bluestem Pricklypoppy
 
Bluestem Pricklypoppy, Crested Pricklypoppy, Intermediate Pricklypoppy, Annual Pricklypoppy - Argemone polyanthermos
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Bluestem Pricklypoppy, Crested Pricklypoppy, Intermediate Pricklypoppy, Annual Pricklypoppy - Argemone polyanthermos
 
A sticky, yellow juice oozes out of the Bluestem Pricklypoppy when the stem is broken.  Alkaloids in this sap and seeds are toxic.  The Lakota used the yellow sap as a dye for arrow shafts.
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Sign used at Wind Cave in 1903 when the cave became a national park.  

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Wind Cave is the first cave in the world to be designated as a national park. That occurred on January 9, 1903.

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Last Updated: June 14, 2007 at 18:25 EST