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Useful tips. Esther Fleming December 17, Table of Contents. Previous Article Why are more computers recycled now? Back To Top. Missouri has more than species in the sedge family. Missouri has 24 species in the rush family. Milkweeds are a group of plants that used to have their very own family.
Indian Hemp Dogbane. Indian hemp is a shrubby, upright perennial with opposite branches and milky sap. This native plant can be a troublesome weed in crop fields and gardens, but Native Americans used its tough, fibrous stems for rope-making. There are 23 species of goldenrods in Missouri. They can be hard to identify to species, but as a group, the goldenrods are common and nearly unmistakable.
American Feverfew. A common component of high-quality upland prairie, American feverfew, or wild quinine, is a native wildflower that was used to treat fevers or malaria. It's in the composite family. Ashy Sunflower. Ashy sunflower is relatively short compared to others in its genus. Its leaves are grayish, hairy, sessile, and broadly oval. Its colonies are common in upland prairies in the southern half of the state. Common Sunflower. Whether you see the wild form or any of the many cultivated varieties, this poster child of the sunflower family cultivates its own sunny impression.
Common sunflower is also the state flower of Kansas. Jerusalem Artichoke Sunflower Artichoke. Jerusalem artichoke deserves a better common name. This tall native sunflower has edible tubers and great crop potential, but it has never been very big commercially. Fortunately, we can enjoy it for free in nature. Compass Plant. Compass plant grows to 8 feet tall and has foot-long, deeply cleft leaves at its base.
Prairie Dock Prairie Rosinweed. Only a few small leaves grow on the stem. Glade Coneflower. Look for it in the eastern Ozarks, and at native plant nurseries! Gray-Headed Coneflower. It starts off gray, but as the disk florets open and bloom, it turns brown.
It grows almost statewide in prairies, glades, pastures, fencerows, and roadsides. Pale Purple Coneflower. One of Missouri's five types of echinacea, pale purple coneflower is distinguished by its white pollen, drooping pink or purple ray flowers, and narrow, tapering leaves. It occurs nearly statewide, except for the Bootheel lowlands. Related Habitats Prairies. Roadsides, Industrial Sites, Mining Areas. Forests and Woodlands. Flood plains are often rich in nutrients and create fertile farmland.
Alluvial plains form at the base of mountains. Water carrying sediment flows downhill until it hits flat land. There, it spreads out, depositing the sediment in the shape of a fan. The Huang He River in China has created an alluvial plain that covers about , square kilometers , square miles. Because much of the sediment the Huang He carries is yellowish in color, it is also called the Yellow River.
Many rivers deposit their sediment in the ocean. As the sediment builds up, it might eventually rise above sea level , forming a coastal plain. These broad underwater plains slope gently down beneath the water. Abyssal plains are found at the bottom of the ocean. These plains are 5, to 7, meters 16, to 23, feet below sea level, so scientists have a hard time studying them. But scientists say abyssal plains are among the flattest, smoothest places on Earth.
Regions are the basic units of geography.
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