Prairie Dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum) Range Map

Native Range

Prairie Wildflower
Blooms: July - September

Habitat: Prairie Dock prefers full sun with a deep loamy soil and moist to slightly dry conditions. Look for Prairie Dock in moist to dry black soil prairies, gravel prairies, shrub prairies, hill prairies, savannas, seeps, limestone glades, and prairie remnants along roadsides and railroads.