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Some native plants are unmistakable, but nailing down the ID on today’s wildflowers has been a challenge. When I first photographed a large colony of these plants on Mike Delaney’s restored prairie in Dallas County, I assumed they were sawtooth sunflowers Helianthus grosseserratus because of the serrated leaves. However, John Pearson of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources com in the Iowa Wildflower Report Facebook group, “This may be Prairie Sunflower Helianthus pauciflorus, note reddish disc flowers. The long, leafless upper stems, however, remind me of Western Sunflower (H. occidentalis).” Leland Searles, another expert on native plants, mentioned that “sunflowers can be confusing.”