Mike MacDonald Photography features a constantly growing collection of prairie photographs for use as stock photographs for editorial or advertising. We also offer an elegant Art Cards featuring the prairie landscape. And, finally, we offer prairie prints in the form of Fine Art Limited Edition Prints and wall murals made from any of Mike's prairie images. Please take a look in our Beautiful Places / Special Places Gallery to see a selection of prairie images. This is just a small selection, so please call us toll free 1-877-MAC-FOTO or email us with your prairie stock photography or wall mural research request.Mike MacDonald's work has been published extensively in Chicago Wilderness Magazine, literally from cover to cover, and nationally in such publications as Outdoor Photographer Magazine and Petersen's Photographic Magazine.
Prairie Species, Wildflowers, & Locations Include:
- Wildflowers: Liatris (marsh blazing star, rough blazing star), blue flag iris, purple coneflower, yellow coneflower, purple prairie clover, rattlesnake master, bird's foot violet, lousewort or wood betony, lupine, spiderwort, scurfy pea, partridge pea, skunk cabbage, evening primrose, prairie coneflower, black-eyed Susan, blue flag iris, prairie sundrops, false rue anemone, rattlesnake master, dutchman's breeches, cut-leaved toothwort, nodding wild onion, swamp smartweed, hibiscus, swamp rose mallow, indian paintbrush, wild bergamot or menarda, shooting star, Culver's root, lead plant, cotton grass, hoary puccoon, showy tick trefoil, foxglove beard tongue, prairie phlox, pasture rose, Joe Pye weed, common milkweed, swamp milkweed, nodding wild onion, butterfly weed or butterfly milkweed, yellow star grass, sand coreopsis, golden alexanders, compass plant, western sunflower, prairie dock, cup plant, tall coreopsis, sneezeweed, showy goldenrod, saw-toothed sunflower, tall goldenrod, stiff goldenrod, starry false Solomon's seal, flowering spurge, meadow anemone, wild quinine, whorled milkweed, mountain mint, etc.
- Prairie Grasses & Sedges: porcupine grass, prairie brome, big bluestem, side-oats grama, Indian grass, prairie dropseed, little bluestem, etc.
- Specific prairies Include: Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Lake County Forest Preserves, Forest Preserve District of Will County, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Lockport Prairie (Lockport, Illinois - Will County), Belmont Prairie (DuPage County, Illinois), Fermilab Prairie (DuPage County, Illinois), West Chicago Prairie (West Chicago, Illinois - DuPage County), Wolf Road Prairie (Westchester, Illinois - Cook County), Gensburg-Markham Prairie (Markham, Illinois - Cook County), Bluff Spring Fen (Elgin, Illinois - Cook County) Nachusa Grasslands (Oregon, Illinois), Chiwaukee Prairie (Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin - Kenosha County), Spears Woods (Cook County - Willow Springs, Illinois - south Chicago area), Lake in the Hills Fen (Lake in the Hills, McHenry County - northwestern Chicago area), Illinois Beach State Park (Zion, Illinois - Lake County), Middlefork Savanna (Lake Forest, Illinois - Lake County)

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