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, ...

Scientists studied the sex lives of 778 individual plants for 21 years During the study, prescribed, controlled burns took place in nine different years In the year after a prescribed burn, more ...

Prairies once covered an enormous area of North America, but today have been reduced to a small fraction of this historical range. Imagine an area the size of Texas, the second largest state, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you're picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, perhaps a few asters. But plant ecologists at the University of Illinois ...

FARGO — A south Fargo prairie garden is growing strong this summer despite a brief scare late last year when the Fargo City Commission ordered it mowed down. “It's doing very very well,” gardener ...

In order to remember their homeland, many immigrants brought articles and possessions that they cherished and that harked back to their heritage. This often included plants such as lilacs, roses, ...

This rosinweed plant is part of a 60-acre prairie restoration at Big Bull Creek Park in Johnson County. It was planted three years ago. In a few years, Kansas Citians will be able to wander 500 acres ...

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 ...