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Dodecatheon media

Here are some additional thoughts about Prairie shooting-star (Dodecatheon
media).  I dug some mature plants from a RR right of way that was about to
be plowed up in 1978 and put them in the clay subsoil of a roadside ditch.
There were perhaps a half dozen plants, and it also had a good prairie
matrix.  They have been burned about every fourth year.  Two years ago I
discovered that there were several hundred plants where previously I had
just seen just a dozen or so.  Many were seedlings, but there also lots of
flowering ones.  I was really surprised, but also elated, they seem to have
multiplied when I was looking the other way.

We also have a few in some very diverse prairie reconstructions which are
doing quite well, but they have spread only a little in about 10 years.

The moral of this story is be patient, plant diversity and you will have
more success than you imagined possible.

Carl Kurtz
Central Iowa

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