Carl Kurtz Nature Photo: Compass Plants Aldo Leopold wrote his book, “A Sand County Almanac,” about a single compass plant, or cut-leaf silphium (its genus name), in the corner of an old graveyard. At the time, he believed it to be the sole surviving plant in the western half of his Wisconsin county. He went on to write, “What a thousand acres of silphiums looked like when they tickled the bellies of the buffalo is a question never ...
July 26, 2013 - The Ames Tribune