Healthy prairie community with grey-headed coneflower and bee balm. (Photo by Liz Koziol) The North American prairie once covered 170 million acres, making it the largest ecosystem on the continent, ...

Late summer is the time of glory for prairie plants: Grasses are golden, sunflowers are yellow, coneflowers are pink. It’s the loveliest time to visit a place such as the Schulenberg Prairie at The ...

Tyler Kruse pulls weeds away from various prairie plants while tending to his pocket prairie on his property in Oxford, Iowa on Monday, July 28, 2025. Kruse said he consulted with a professional ...

The project started modestly, as many do — “with a few prairie plants along the driveway,” Guy Denny recalled. But with the vigor and beauty of the plants as inspiration, the project in Knox County ...

We bought our first home in 2002, looking for some room to spread out on a rather tight budget. When we found a suitable place it was in a rather remote corner of Chicagoland, a neighborhood on the ...

Native plants are those plants growing naturally in an area before human settlement. Although many native plants are prairie plants, most can be successfully grown in a regular home garden. Native ...

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There's a lot of different choices when it comes to painting flowers at Runge Conservation Nature Center in Jefferson City. Among the species available are the tall, purple ironweed, the yellow ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Making use of bland, empty spaces. That’s what an Omaha organization is doing around the metro, with hopes to expand across other parts of the Great Plains. “Pocket Prairies” is ...

Experience a fascinating range of plant life from different ecosystems. Experience a fascinating range of plant life from different ecosystems such as Diverse Deserts, Mediterranean Scrubland, the ...

Elemental hyperaccumulation in plants is hypothesized to represent a plant defense mechanism. The objective of this study was to determine whether selenium hyperaccumulation offers plants long-term ...