The prairie is sectioned into plots. Some of the plots have grass and flowers in them and some only have grass. Our question was : have flowers spread from the original plots they were in?
Figures 1-5 show the percentage of plots that have each plant in them from the data we collected.
Figure 1: Percentage of plots studies with and without Sage
Figure 2: Percentage of plots studies with and without American aster
Figure 4: Percentage of plots studies with and without american pokeweed
Figure 5: Percentage of plots studies with and without sunflowers
Figure 6: Diagram of the plants observed.
The types of flowers that seem to spread the most are sunflowers, american asters, and new england aster.
We didn't collect data from all the plots. We didn’t count the number of the flowers in each plot. We only included five different flower species.
free state homepage
https://www.usd497.org/Domain/26
This is the link to the Konza Prarie in Kansas. It shows you a year time lapse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plFfhDW1S0g