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Wildflowers - Maximilian Sunflower
 
Maximilian Sunflower - Helianthus maximilliana
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Maximilian Sunflower - Helianthus maximilliana
 
The plant is named after Prince Maximilian von Wied, a German explorer and naturalist who discovered this sunflower on one of his botanical forays to North America. It is a favored forage of wildlife.

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Prairie Dog Barking

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Lewis and Clark, while on their journey up the Missouri River in 1804, noted that this "wild dog of the prairie...appears here in infinite numbers."
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