{"id":25730,"date":"2010-07-10T20:33:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/10\/plants-love-at-coon-rapids-dam\/"},"modified":"2010-07-10T20:33:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T20:33:55","slug":"plants-love-at-coon-rapids-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/10\/plants-love-at-coon-rapids-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants = Love at Coon Rapids Dam East"},"content":{"rendered":"

We took a walk today along the east side of the Mississippi River just down stream from Coon Rapids Dam. The park here invested about ten years ago in a major prairie restoration project which has been paying off big time in recent years. The following is a sampling of the scenery, mainly focusing on flowering plants in the prairie areas, but there are a couple of woodland plants and a few other items of interest as well.<\/p>\n

I’ve numbered the photos so you can provide suggested identifications of any items you recognize. For some photos, you can click to get a larger image. Most larger images are not more than 1700 pixels wide, and will appear in a window with scrollbars.
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\n1) Coon Rapids Dam
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3)
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4) This person must have really loved plants.
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