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Wind Cave National Park
Wildflowers - Nodding Onion
 
Nodding Onion - Allium cernuum
NPS Photo by Jim Pisarowicz
Nodding Onion - Allium cernuum
 
Nodding onions, like all wild onions are edible.  Caution must be taken in eating wild onions, because without flowers, they maybe confused with deathcamas which is poisonous.

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Prairie Dog Barking

Did You Know?
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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Last Updated: July 20, 2007 at 17:45 MST