Flint Hills tallgrass prairie

Flint Hills tallgrass prairie

Flint Hills tallgrass prairie
The Flint Hills tallgrass prairie — the largest contiguous remnant of the original North American tallgrass prairie, covering a narrow north-south strip of eastern Kansas and the very northern Osage County in Oklahoma. The shallow flinty soils (limestone bedrock with chert layers) defeated the plow, leaving the prairie intact where the deeper soils of the Central Tallgrass region were converted. Annual ranchland fire keeps woody encroachment in check and is the load-bearing management practice.
RESOLVE 392
Nearctic
10,776 sq mi
Humid continental to humid subtropical (Köppen Dfa / Cfa transitional)
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
États / provinces
Kansas, Oklahoma
Type de paysage
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Région végétale
Nearctic
Empreinte de la région
10,776 sq mi
Plage d'altitude
1,000 – 1,700 ft
Type de climat
Humid continental to humid subtropical (Köppen Dfa / Cfa transitional)
Pression sur l'habitat
Nature Imperiled (Dinerstein NNH 4)
Utilisez ceci comme schéma général de plantation pour la région : Temperate prairies, steppes, and pampas of grasses and forbs with few trees, under continental climates of hot summers and cold winters. Their deep, fertile soils have made them among the most extensively converted biomes for agriculture. Pour vos décisions de jardin, associez ce contexte à la liste de plantes ci-dessous, puis affinez selon les contraintes de lumière, d'eau, de sol et de taille adulte de votre site.

Range & origins

Emplacement de Flint Hills tallgrass prairie sur la carte du monde
Repère placé à l’intérieur du polygone RESOLVE 2017 à 38.2°N, 96.6°W.
La région à travers le temps
Empreinte moderne
RESOLVE 2017 cartographie 10,776 sq mi
Cette limite est une empreinte écologique moderne pour Flint Hills tallgrass prairie, et non une ligne permanente sur la planète. Elle est utile pour le contexte actuel des plantes et de la faune car elle suit des schémas récurrents de végétation, de climat, de relief et de perturbations.
Pourquoi ici
Conditions de Humid continental to humid subtropical (Köppen Dfa / Cfa transitional)
La région se situe dans le règne Nearctic et est classée comme temperate grasslands, savannas & shrublands. L'altitude, l'humidité, le feu, les sols, les côtes et l'utilisation humaine des terres peuvent tous rendre le paysage réel plus varié qu'une seule couleur de carte ne le laisse penser.
Pression du changement
Nature Imperiled
Late-summer drought intensification is well-documented; the historical climate envelope is shifting toward earlier green-up and earlier summer dormancy in the prairie matrix.

Collections de plantation

Des recettes de plantation finalisées où chaque membre peut supporter la plage climatique de cette région. Le badge d'adaptation se base sur la plante la plus sensible de la collection, si bien qu'une collection résiliente est un point de départ plus sûr que n'importe quelle vedette isolée.
Résiliente au climat · 2 plantes
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Annabelle hydrangea
Coral bells
+4
Résiliente au climat · 8 plantes
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Switchgrass
Little bluestem
Common milkweed
Black-eyed Susan
Wild bergamot
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Cutleaf coneflower
New England aster
+5
Résiliente au climat · 9 plantes
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Butterfly weed
Common milkweed
Purple coneflower
Wild bergamot
Scarlet bee balm
Little bluestem
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Swamp sunflower
Smooth blue aster
Résiliente au climat · 4 plantes
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
English lavender
Purple coneflower
Black-eyed Susan
Switchgrass

Régions de plantation similaires

Parcourez d'autres régions au rythme similaire d'étés chauds et secs. Leurs listes de plantes peuvent suggérer des espèces et des combinaisons à comparer.
RESOLVE 385 - Nearctic
California Central Valley grasslands
The California Central Valley grasslands fill the long lowland between the Sierra Nevada to the east and the Coast Ranges to the west, spanning the Sacramento Valley in the north and the San Joaquin Valley in the south. The climate is Mediterranean, with most rain falling in winter and conditions growing drier from north to south and on the western, rain-shadowed side. Historically a mosaic of perennial bunchgrass prairie, oak savanna, vernal pools, and riparian woodland, the region is now largely converted to farmland and dominated by introduced annual grasses. It is one of North America's most altered grasslands: less than 1% of native grassland remains and only about 4% is protected.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 7b-12a
+3.1°F d’ici 2070
17,943 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 386 - Nearctic
Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
The Canadian Aspen forests and parklands — the transitional belt between the northern prairies to the south and the boreal forest to the north, covering southern Saskatchewan, southern + central Alberta, southwestern Manitoba, and small extensions into Montana and the Dakotas. Quaking aspen groves interspersed with grassland; the ecoregion functioned historically as a fire-managed mosaic, and woody encroachment under fire suppression has shifted the balance toward more closed aspen forest.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 6b-8b
+6.7°F d’ici 2070
126,247 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 388 - Nearctic
Central Tallgrass prairie
The Central Tallgrass Prairie — the historical core of the North American grassland biome, covering Iowa, northern Missouri, Illinois west of the Indiana hardwood line, eastern Kansas, eastern Nebraska, and the southern parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Big bluestem, Indiangrass, switchgrass, and side-oats grama on the dominant matrix; the deep-rooted forb diversity (Echinacea, Liatris, Silphium, Baptisia, Asclepias) underpins much of the modern native-plant-garden palette. Less than 4% of the original tallgrass remains; conservation collections matter disproportionately.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 7b-10a
+5.9°F d’ici 2070
132,114 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 387 - Nearctic
Central US forest-grasslands transition
The Central US forest-grasslands transition is an ecotone stretching across the central Midwest—including Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, and Kentucky—where the eastern deciduous forests of the United States give way to the tallgrass prairies of the eastern Great Plains. Its presettlement landscape was a mosaic of oak savanna, bluestem prairie, and oak-hickory and maple-basswood forest, with glacial moraines, dunes, fens, and marshes common in the Chicago Lake Plain along Lake Michigan. The climate ranges from humid warm continental to humid cold temperate. Now encompassing major metropolitan areas including Chicago and Milwaukee and reaching south toward St. Louis, the region has lost over 95% of its presettlement vegetation, with only about 3% protected.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 8a-9b
+6.5°F d’ici 2070
88,084 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 389 - Nearctic
Central-Southern US mixed grasslands
The Central-Southern US Mixed Grasslands run north to south from central Nebraska through Kansas and Oklahoma into north-central Texas, a vast prairie marking the ecological transition from tallgrass to shortgrass plains. Its flat-to-rolling, wind-deposited terrain (about 400-1,220 m elevation) carries native mixed-grass prairie of tallgrasses such as big bluestem and Indiangrass alongside shorter grasses, and OneEarth notes it holds the greatest floristic complexity of all North American grasslands. The climate is subhumid warm continental to warm temperate, with annual precipitation ranging from roughly 300 to 812 mm. Each spring more than 500,000 sandhill cranes (about 80% of the world's population) gather along Nebraska's Platte River, though only about 1% of the ecoregion is protected.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 8b-11a
+4.0°F d’ici 2070
106,215 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 390 - Nearctic
Cross-Timbers savanna-woodland
The Cross-Timbers savanna-woodland — the post-oak / blackjack-oak savanna belt running roughly southwest-to-northeast through central Texas, central Oklahoma, and southeastern Kansas. Forms the ragged forested western edge of the eastern hardwoods before the Great Plains take over to the west. Heavily fragmented by agriculture and urban Texas / Oklahoma metro growth.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 9b-11a
+4.1°F d’ici 2070
34,070 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 4

Sous-régions d'affinement national

Au sein de cette écorégion RESOLVE, les agences nationales reconnaissent des sous-régions plus détaillées. Plotwright attribue chaque polygone de sous-région au polygone RESOLVE qui le contient selon son centroïde.
EPA Niveau III (États-Unis uniquement) - 1 sous-région
28 · Flint Hills
Source : USGS / EPA via Omernik (1987).

Sources et citations

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Plotwright. (n.d.). Flint Hills tallgrass prairie (Flint Hills tallgrass prairie). Retrieved 2026, June 24, from https://plotwright.com/regions/resolve-392
Sources pour cette région
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RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
Cadre principal des écorégions
Étaye 4 champs
Identifiant RESOLVE
Biome + règne
Superficie
Palier NNH
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Autorité publiée des zones de rusticité
Étaye 1 champ
Plage de zones USDA