Can you identify this prominent tallgrass prairie plant?
Can you identify what plant this leaf is from?
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Here’s another photo of the same species. More of you should be able to identify it now.
One of the more distinctive leaves in tallgrass prairie.
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Stumped?
It’s compass plant (Silphium laciniatum). Here’s a summer photo from Missouri.
Compass plant. Prairie Fork Conservation Area. Missouri.
The Prairie Ecologist 
Chris:
One of my favorite prairie plants and I like the browns, a difficult color to capture aesthetically.
Ed
Let’s play this game some more! I LOVE IT! Kind of like “Stump the Chumps!” on Car Talk on NPR!
Love it. Pls send more!
Yes – its compass plant. Great close-up!
I once took an on-lne bird ID course offered by the Galveston Island Ornithological Soc. It was only $100.00, but it was a good fund raiser for the group….. you might want to consider it. We would receive the weekly lessons via email. Each week could be a new plant… always nice to see it during each stage of it’s life cycle. Here and there we’d get a quiz with the question one week, and the answer the next.
Excellent photography.