Field Guide

Mist flower provides late-season nectar for butterflies, skippers, and bees. For us, it's a cool contrast to the warm colors of early fall.

It’s true! Poison ivy contributes greatly to early fall color, in beautiful hues of red, pink, orange, and yellow. Look for it clothing tree trunks and branches.

These butter-yellow butterflies migrate southward in late summer and early fall. They survive winters in the southeastern United States.

This native Missouri bunchgrass turns lovely copper in early fall. In sunny places, it shines alongside goldenrods, asters, ironweeds, and thoroughworts.