Wildflowers at the Oak Creek Ranch near Lake City, Barber County, Kansas.
Left to right: Scarlet globe mallow, Cutleaf ironweed, Rose-ring or showy gaillardia.

The Oak Creek Ranch is located 14 miles west of Medicine Lodge and 5 miles south of Lake City in historic Barber County, Kansas. The ranch encompasses more than 2,000 contiguous acres of habitat including Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) grassland, wooded canyons, oak trees, a 40 acre lake, numerous ponds, springs and Oak Creek, which traverses over 4 miles of the ranch. Deer feeders and food plots are utilized in order to maintain the wildlife population. Wildlife on the ranch includes whitetail deer, mule deer, turkeys, quail, pheasant, Canadian geese and usually a swan at the lake.

Lodging is available in Medicine Lodge, which is approximately 14 miles east of the ranch, as well as in Pratt and Coldwater.

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Black Sampson Echinacea

Catclaw sensitive brier

Scarlet globe mallow

Rayless or fragrant gaillardia

Cutleaf ironweed

Rose-ring or showy gaillardia

Plains prickly pear cactus flower

Plains prickly pear cactus flower

Showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa.

Prickly poppy, Argemone polyanthemos.

Purple ground cherry

Antelope horns milkweed

Pincushion cactus, Coryphantha vivipara

Showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa

1 - Wildflower at the Oak Creek Ranch, Barber County, Kansas.

2 - Wildflower at the Oak Creek Ranch, Barber County, Kansas.

Wildflower at the Oak Creek Ranch, Barber County, Kansas.

Bugs on a wildflower at the Oak Creek Ranch, Barber County, Kansas.

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Thanks to Phyllis Scherich for her identification of these wildflowers! For a collection of Phyllis Scherich's photographs of Kansas wildflowers, see:

Wildflowers of Comanche County, Kansas

Also see:

Kansas Native Plant Society   "The purpose of the KNPS is to develop an awareness in our citizens of the beauty of Kansas wild-flowers, the value of their use in landscaping public areas, and their place in our ecology."

Native American Seed   This is a source of seeds for many of the flowers pictured on this page.

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Contact: Ronnie Hoagland, 201 Sherlock, Lake City, KS 67071
Phone: (620)-247-6222       Fax: (620)-247-6223

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