Kansas Geological Survey--Photo Library

Prairie Primrose, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

County: Chase

Date: May 15, 2005

Place Name: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Short description: Prairie Primrose at the Lower Fox Creek Schoolyard at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Chase County. The 11,000-acre preserve in the Flint Hills, established in 1996, represents a portion of the 170,000 acres of tallgrass prairie that once covered the central United States.

Key Words

Flint Hills

Wildflowers

Flint Hills Scenic Byway

Nature Preserve

Kansas Scenic Byways

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

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