Places We Protect

Walnut Hill

Virginia

Crab spider on purple coneflower plant (Echinacea angustifolia)  Griffith Prairie north of Aurora, Nebraska.  (Prairie Plains Resource Institute prairie).
Purple coneflower Crab spider on purple coneflower plant (Echinacea angustifolia) Griffith Prairie north of Aurora, Nebraska. (Prairie Plains Resource Institute prairie). © Chris Helzer/The Nature Conservancy

This preserve supports a high-quality occurrence of smooth purple coneflower, known from only 15 sites in the world.