Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses

This site contains information and more than 2650 identification photos for some 550 species of forbs, grasses, sedges, rushes, and woody plants that are found growing in Kansas. All photographs were taken by Mike Haddock unless otherwise noted. They may be used for educational purposes but may not be downloaded for commercial use, i.e. to derive profit for yourself or your employer.

This web site began in 1996. For optimum display of the images, I would suggest disabling any "Automatic Image Resizing" options.

Michael Haddock is the author of Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas: A Field Guide , a book that was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2005. Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas was selected as a "2006 Kansas Notable Book" by the Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library of Kansas. It is available in many bookstores and via online book sellers. For additional information about the book, go to: http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/hadwil.html

Both this web site and my book are cited online in the Bibliography and Related Links section of National Geographic's April 2007 feature on the Flint Hills of Kansas: Learn More about the Tallgrass Prairie .

Acknowledgements

I am most grateful to Yongli Zhou who designed a new look for this site and created the database framework that it has been built on.

I am also very appreciative for identification assistance provided over the years by Craig Freeman, Clenton Owensby, Walt Fick, Ted Barkley, Gene Towne, Carolyn Ferguson, and Mark Mayfield.

Special thanks to my father, Dean Haddock, a true range plant expert who did the line drawings used on this site.

A bibliography of prairie wildflower and range plant books that I consult.

Professor Mike Haddock is Agriculture Librarian and Chair of the Sciences Department at Kansas State University Libraries.