Editing Kansas (section)

===Flora and fauna===
[[File:Grinter Sunflower Farm (36985501781).jpg|thumb|Sunflower field outside of [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]].]]
In Kansas, there are currently 238 species of rare animals and 400 rare plants.<ref>{{cite web|date=February 12, 2013|title=Kansas Natural Heritage Inventory: Rare plants and animals, and natural communities|url=https://biosurvey.ku.edu/ksnhi/rare-plants-and-animals|access-date=March 16, 2021|website=Kansas Biological Survey|archive-date=May 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510002224/https://biosurvey.ku.edu/ksnhi/rare-plants-and-animals|url-status=live}}</ref> Among those include: [[Boechera laevigata|Smooth rockress]], [[Virginia rail]], [[Eurycea spelaea|Western Grotto Salamander]], [[Osmunda regalis|Royal Fern]], [[Turkey-tangle]], [[Bobolink]], [[Eurycea lucifuga|Cave salamander]], [[Snowy Plover]], [[Strecker's Chorus Frog]], [[Peregrine falcon]], and [[Black-footed ferret]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Kansas|first=Natural Heritage Inventory|date=January 9, 2014|title=Rare Vertebrates Kansas|url=https://biosurvey.ku.edu/sites/kbs.drupal.ku.edu/files/docs/Rare%20Vertebrates%2009Jan2014.pdf|access-date=March 16, 2021|archive-date=May 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510002221/https://biosurvey.ku.edu/sites/kbs.drupal.ku.edu/files/docs/Rare%20Vertebrates%2009Jan2014.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Kansas|first=Natural Heritage Inventory|date=January 9, 2014|title=Rare Vertebrates of Kansas|url=https://biosurvey.ku.edu/sites/kbs.drupal.ku.edu/files/docs/Rare%20Vertebrates%2009Jan2014.pdf|access-date=March 16, 2021|archive-date=May 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510002221/https://biosurvey.ku.edu/sites/kbs.drupal.ku.edu/files/docs/Rare%20Vertebrates%2009Jan2014.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Common animal species and grasses include: [[crow]]s, [[deer]], [[lesser prairie-chicken]], [[Mouse|mice]], [[Eastern Mole|moles]], [[Virginia opossum]], [[Black-tailed prairie dog|prairie dog]]s, [[raccoon]], [[Tripsacum dactyloides|Eastern Gama Grass]], [[Sporobolus heterolepis|Prairie Dropseed]], [[Sorghastrum nutans|Indian Grass]], [[Schizachyrium scoparium|little bluestem]], [[Switch grass]], [[Chasmanthium latifolium|Northern Sea Oats]], [[Carex stricta|Tussock Sedge]], [[Sideoats grama]], and [[Big Bluestem]].<ref>{{cite web|last=K-State Research|first=and Extension|title=Native Plants|url=https://www.johnson.k-state.edu/docs/crops-livestock/native-grass-seed/Native%20Plants%20-%20EMG.pdf|website=www.johnson.k-state.edu|access-date=March 16, 2021|archive-date=May 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510002316/https://www.johnson.k-state.edu/docs/crops-livestock/native-grass-seed/Native%20Plants%20-%20EMG.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses|url=https://www.kswildflower.org/|access-date=March 16, 2021|website=www.kswildflower.org|archive-date=February 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226155654/https://kswildflower.org/|url-status=live}}</ref>