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Wildflowers - Nodding Onion
 
Nodding Onion - Allium cernuum
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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

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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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