1830 T. Flint II. xi. 197 A blighted prairie flower, cut down under the withering of a summer's sun.
1894 Aug. 422/1 To be sure there were patches of orange prairie flowers all about.
1990 J. Hudson (1992) iii. 41 On the flatter cutting ground toward the river, the greater moisture and soil had covered hundreds of corpses with prairie flowers.