Word: phlox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is now Iowa, only 200 remain, much of it in bits and pieces along highways. Butterflies are the main pollinators of those grasses and flowers, but the variety of vegetation is rapidly decreasing as the butterflies are forced to forage for nectar in ever smaller prairie fragments. Prairie phlox, for example, one of the most common Great Plains flowers, depends on the butterflies to reproduce. But if the phlox is broken up into small stands, the butterflies...