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Wind Cave National Park
Wildflowers - Curlycup Gumweed
 
Curlycup Gumweed - Grindelia squarrosa
NPS Photo by Jim Pisarowicz
Curlycup Gumweed - Grindelia squarrosa
 
The sticky resin of the Curlycup Gumweed makes the plant unpalatable to animals.  The resin was used by settlers to ease itching from poison ivy.

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A picture of Alvin McDonald in his caving hat.

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Alvin McDonald was the first systematic explorer of Wind Cave. He explored the cave from 1890 until his death in 1893.
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