Book excerpt: This wildflower identification guide includes over twenty common summer blooming wildflowers with photographs. Abe’s Guide to August Wildflowers allows easier identification of wildflowers in the field because it is composed only of the early summer wildflowers of the season. Late summer blooming wildflowers tend to be flowers of the vast great American prairie. The prairies occupied the interior of the North American continent and supported a cornucopia of flowers, grasses and herbs. The prairies have disappeared and these former prairie wildflowers now occupy sunny meadows and roadsides throughout the Midwest. summer, series, indiana