Button Eryngo Sprouts After Prescribed Fire

            Check out these fresh button eryngo rosettes rising from the ashes of a recent prescribed burn!

Button eryngo (Eryngium yuccifolium) is a wildflower that grows in open, sunny areas like grasslands, savannas, barrens, and glades. Also known as “rattlesnake master,” button erygno is uncommon in the state of Ohio, known only from a handful of counties and listed by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources as potentially-threatened. Here in the Wayne National Forest, it can only be found growing in a couple specific areas.

Like other grassland, savanna, and barren wildflowers, button eryngo benefits from fire. Fire helps button eryngo spread and increase in numbers, as seeds readily germinate and grow in areas that were just burned. Over the next few months, these tiny leaves will grow much larger and take on an appearance similar to aloe. Come late summer, the plant will send up several round, prickly flower heads. Each flower head will feature dozens of tiny, nondescript white flowers. These flowers are popular with pollinators, especially native flies and bees.

Helping uncommon plants like button eryngo is just one of the reasons we use fire in the Wayne National Forest. Prescribed burns not only help sustain individual types of plants, but also help keep the ecosystems these plants live in healthy and resilient.

Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks.

Taken on: March 20, 2022

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Camera: Nikon D5500, f/13.0, 1/500 sec, 65mm (=97mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

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