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, ...

I have been visiting Tallgrass Prairie country. The plant species are not the same as in our area, but I can identify relatives of the plants I grow. One very common plant is Rattlesnake Master, ...

Late summer is a splendid time of year to go prospecting for native prairie plants that might bring beauty and wildlife habitat to your garden. “Plants that are native to the prairie are in their ...

This will be the first in a series of articles on our native prairie grasses that can be used to enhance your yard. But first we need to know a bit more about prairies. Prairies are our heritage and ...

In the golden days of summer, a prairie is in its glory. You can capture some of that glory for your garden by incorporating native prairie plants, according to Julie Janoski, manager of the Plant ...

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, in the Kansas Flint Hills, protects one of the largest remaining sections of the prairie that once stretched from Canada to Mexico. Prairies used to stretch across ...

It looks like spring is finally here! Here’s a great Texas native plant for your landscapes: Glandularia bipinnatifida, known as Prairie Verbena in Texas, and also as Dakota Mock Vervain and the ...

MILWAUKEE - You might have heard of falling Monarch Butterfly numbers or the rapidly declining number of bees, but there is something you can do to stop it. Wisconsin and other Midwest states use to ...

Matt Dehaemers, owner of Compass Prairie Art Farm, stands in his remnant 10-acre prairie on Monday, September 23, 2024. Crickets and grasshoppers sing among the native grasses and flowers on a 10-acre ...

A native prairie pasture in western Douglas County. Before European settlement, Kansas was dominated by vast prairies of tall grasses and wildflowers. However, farming and development have since ...