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Wildflowers - Meadow Deathcamas
 
Meadow Deathcamas, Grassy Deathcamas - Zigadenus venenosus
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Meadow Deathcamas, Grassy Deathcamas - Zigadenus venenosus
 
Meadow deathcamas is regarded as the most toxic of the deathcamas species.  An alkaloid is the toxic substance, producing symptoms akin to cyanide poisoning.  Poisoning most often happens to sheep who graze in infested areas early in the growing season.

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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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