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View Resource Fermilab Education Office-Illinois Ecosystem Project: Photos & Information about Prairie Plants

From the Fermilab Education Office -- named after the world famous physicist Enrico Fermi and located amidst a tallgrass prairie -- this website offers a nice collection of prairie information and interactive programs for students. The first section contains images and profiles for plants like Big Bluestem, Mountain Mint, Compass Plant, Black-eyed Susan, and more. Each plant profile includes a...

https://ed.fnal.gov/data/life_sci/vis_tools/icons_to_photos2...
View Resource Illinois Department of Natural Resources: Prairie Establishment and Landscaping

This website features a hypertext version of _Prairie Establishment and Landscaping_, an Illinois Department of Natural Resources Technical Publication by William E. McClain. The hypertext offers a good overview of prairies and contains two main sections on Prairie Establishment and Prairie Plants in Landscape Design. The text's subsections provide brief coverage of prairie history, seed...

https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/publications/documents/0000028...