What to Look & Listen for at the Conservancy in August

Here are the animals and plants to look out for when you visit Pheasant Branch Conservancy in August.

Monarch butterfly landing on a flower at Pheasant Branch Conservancy in Middleton WI
Photo: Anna Duecker

Pheasant Branch Conservancy is home to an amazing assortment of plants and wildlife all year long. Here are the animals and plants to look out for when you visit Pheasant Branch Conservancy in August.

Animals

  • Snapping turtles hatch & adults seek hibernation sites
  • Monarch butterflies begin southern migration

Trees, Grasses & Flowers

  • Cardinal flower
  • Gerardia
  • Stiff goldenrod
  • Great blue lobelia
  • Turtlehead
  • Bottle gentian
  • Blackberries
  • Elderberries
  • Wild rice
  • Canada tick-trefoil (seeds)
  • False boneset (seeds)
  • Golden Alexander (seeds)
  • Sideoats grama (seeds)
  • Thimbleweed (seeds)
  • Prairie cinquefoil (seeds)
  • Sweet flag (seeds)
  • Black-eyed Susan (seeds)
  • Goat’s rue (seeds)
  • New Jersey tea (seeds)
  • Bottlebrush grass (seeds)
  • Horsemint (seeds)
  • Common evening primrose (seeds)

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Meteorological Data

  • Average temperature (high/low): 79°F/61°F
  • Average precipitation (rain): 3.6”
  • Average hours of daylight: 13.8
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