Pioneer Cemetery, Baldwin City, Ks

12/08/2023

This map was developed by the Heritage Conservation Council to share more information about a variety of Natural Landmarks in Douglas County

12/08/2023

Check out this fabulous new map of Douglas Couty natural landmarks put together by the Heritage Conservation Council. Of special interest to me is the Pioneer Cemetery and Blackjack Park. Check out all the sites though!!

This map was developed by the Heritage Conservation Council to share more information about a variety of Natural Landmarks in Douglas County

06/19/2022

More color from the prairie at Pioneer Cemetery, 6-19-2022. Happy Father’s Day to all the father figures out there!!

06/04/2022

04/10/2022

Interesting site. Restoring Americas Cemeteries will be in Osage, Ks June 8th!

03/02/2022

While some folks were watching the State of the Union tonight Palmyra Fire Department # 2 was improving the state of the prairie 🔥. Many thanks to Chief Mike Hircshman and his crew for a great job burning the prairie tonight. Burning the prairie will help promote growth and rejuvenate the plants. The burning, used as part of a training event for the volunteers was amazing to watch and very professional. We are in good hands with this group! Thanks to you all!!

02/04/2022

Mark your calendar’s for this fun event‼️

The June anniversary of the famed 1856 battle will be a big event.

01/16/2022

A few signs of spring to warm up this winter day!

01/10/2022

Greetings!
As you likely know, Pioneer Cemetery is surrounded on three sides by prairie. Below is a list of the species documented in 2019 by the Kansas Biological Survey.

Pioneer Cemetery Plant Species
Combined list for surveys conducted by the Kansas Biological Survey 1987 - 2019
Total Number of Species: 143


Common Name - Scientific Name Introduced

Adams-needle - Yucca filamentosa x
American bittersweet - Celastrus scandens
American bluehear- Buchnera americana
American ceanothus - Ceanothus americanus
American dewberry - Rubus flagellaris
annual fleabane - Erigeron annuus
Arkansas rose - Rosa arkansana
ashy sunflower - Helianthus mollis
asparagus - Asparagus officinalis x
atlantic camas - Camassia scilloides
azure aster - Symphyotrichum oolentangiense
big bluestem - Andropogon gerardii
bird's-foot violet - Viola pedata
black cherry - Prunus serotina
black medic - Medicago lupulina x
black oak - Quercus velutina
black-eyed-susan - Rudbeckia hirta
blackjack oak - Quercus marilandica
blue sage - Salvia azurea
blunt-leaf bedstraw - Galium obtusum
bristly greenbrier - Smilax tamnoides
buckbrush - Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
Bush's sedge - Carex bushii
butterfly milkweed - Asclepias tuberosa
button gayfeather - Liatris aspera
button snake-root eryngo - Eryngium yuccifolium
Callery pear (Bradford pear) - Pyrus calleryana x
Canada bluegrass - Poa compressa x
Canadian lousewort - Pedicularis canadensis
Canadian onion - Allium canadense
Canadian wild-rye - Elymus canadensis
Carolina horse-nettle - Solanum carolinense
Carolina puccoon - Lithospermum caroliniense
cat-claw mimosa - Mimosa quadrivalvis
clammy ground-cherry - Physalis heterophylla
common dandelion - Taraxacum officinale x
common hackberry - Celtis occidentalis
common orchard grass - Dactylis glomerata x
common ox-eye daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare x
common pepperweed - Lepidium densiflorum
common selfheal - Prunella vulgaris x
common st. johns-wort - Hypericum perforatum x
common timothy - Phleum pratense x
compassplant - Silphium laciniatum
creeping bentgrass - Agrostis stolonifera x
daisy fleabane - Erigeron strigosus
deptford pink - Dianthus armeria x
eastern gamma grass - Tripsacum dactyloides
eastern redbud - Cercis canadensis
eastern red-cedar - Juniperus virginiana
field pussys-toes - Antennaria neglecta
finger coreopsis - Coreopsis palmata
flowering spurge - Euphorbia corollata
foothill bedstraw - Galium pedemontanum x
fragrant bedstraw - Galium triflorum
fringe-leaf ruellia - Ruellia humilis
gray-head prairie-coneflower - Ratibida pinnata
green milkweed - Asclepias viridiflora
hairy aster - Symphyotrichum pilosum
hairy yellow star-lily - Hypoxis hirsuta
heath aster - Symphyotrichum ericoides
h**p dogbane - Apocynum cannabinum
illinois tick-clover - Desmodium illinoense
inland rush - Juncus interior
Japanese brome - Bromus japonicus x
Japanese honeysuckle - Lonicera japonica x
Kentucky blue grass - Poa pratensis x
leadplant - Amorpha canescens
little barley - Hordeum pusillum
little bluestem - Schizachyrium scoparium
long-beard hawkweed - Hieracium longipilum
mayapple - Podophyllum peltatum
Mead's milkweed - Asclepias meadii
Mead's sedge - Carex meadii
midland fawnlilly - Erythronium mesochoreum
narrow-leaf mountain-mint - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
narrowleaf plantain - Plantago lanceolata x
Nuttalls prairie-parsley - Polytaenia nuttallii
Ohio spiderwort - Tradescantia ohiensis
old-field cinquefoil - Potentilla simplex
pale beardtongue -- Penstemon pallidus
pale purple coneflower - Echinacea pallida
pale-seed plantain - Plantago virginica
pale-spike lobelia - Lobelia spicata
plains wild-indigo - Baptisia bracteata
pointed dichanthelium -- Dichanthelium acuminatum
poison-ivy - Toxicodendron radicans
porcupine grass - Hesperostipa spartea
prairie blue-eyed-grass - Sisyrinchium campestre
prairie cord grass - Spartina pectinata
prairie june grass - Koeleria macrantha
prairie milkweed - Asclepias hirtella
procession flower - Polygala incarnata
purple milkweed - Asclepias purpurascens
purple milkwort - Polygala sanguinea
purple prairie-clover - Dalea purpurea
Queen Anne's lace - Daucus carota x
rattlesnake-root -- Prenanthes aspera
red clover - Trifolium pratense x
rough dropseed - Sporobolus compositus
rough-leaf dogwood - Cornus drummondii
round-head bush-clover - Lespedeza capitata
round-seed dichanthelium - Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon
saw-tooth sunflower - Helianthus grosseserratus
Scribners dichanthelium - Dichanthelium oligosanthes
sessile-leaf tickclover - Desmodium sessilifolium
slim-leaf dichanthelium - Dichanthelium linearifolium
slippery elm - Ulmus rubra
smooth beardtongue - Penstemon digitalis
smooth brome - Bromus inermis x
smooth Solomon's seal -Polygonatum biflorum
smooth sumac - Rhus glabra
spider milkweed - Asclepias viridis
spotted water hemlock -Cicuta maculata
spring forget-me-not - Myosotis verna
sticky euthamia - Euthamia gymnospermoides
stiff sunflower - Helianthus pauciflorus
sulfur cinquefoil - Potentilla recta x
switch grass - Panicum virgatum
tall cinquefoil - Potentilla arguta
tall Joe-pye-weed -Eupatorium altissimum
tall mountain-fescue - Schedonorus arundinaceus x
thick-spike gayfeather - Liatris pycnostachya
tube beardtongue - Penstemon tubaeflorus
tuberous indian-plantain - Arnoglossum plantagineum
violet wood-sorrel - Oxalis violacea
Virginia creeper - Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Virginia hoary-pea - Tephrosia virginiana
western salsify - Tragopogon dubius x
western yarrow - Achillea millefolium
whip nut-rush - Scleria triglomerata
white mulberry - Morus alba x
white prairie-clover - Dalea candida
whole-leaf rosinweed - Silphium integrifolium
whorled milkweed - Asclepias verticillata
wild bergamot bee-balm - Monarda fistulosa
willow-leaf aster - Symphyotrichum praealtum
winter bent grass - Agrostis hyemalis
woodland strawberry - Fragaria virginiana
wooly plantain - Plantago patagonica
yellow indian grass - Sorghastrum nutans
yellow wood-sorrel - Oxalis stricta
yellowfruit sedge - Carex annectens