"Love these. I have several!" Gardener shares striking before-and-after photos of low-maintenance plant: 'They're so cool' ...

In the 1800s, West Texas was a short grass prairie, consisting of mostly blue grama and buffalograss. Grazing animals (no cows back then) and grasses evolved together to build the land the early ...

In Illinois, our historic grasses have been tallgrass prairie species. These include big bluestem, yellow Indian grass and switchgrass. It would make sense that a person wishing to include native ...

The long-billed curlew nests in short-grass prairie and incubates eggs on a ground nest. When one hears the prairie dog alarm, she responds by pressing her head, beak and belly close to the ground. In ...

Little Bluestem, Schizachyrium scoparium, is a foundation prairie grass from short to tall grass prairies, ranging from Mexico to Canada. It forms 2-3 feet tall distinct clumps, ...

What remains of the stunning shortgrass prairie of eastern Colorado is at even more risk of die-off than previously thought, threatened by increasingly common extreme droughts. The same fate awaits… ...

Side-oats grama, primarily found in short and mixed grass prairies, is Texas’ state grass; whereas, Indiangrass, a dominant of many tallgrass prairies, is Oklahoma’s state grass.

Joe Woolbright, caretaker at Chesney Prairie Natural Area on the east edge of Siloam Springs, talks in July, 2021, about native plants, wildflowers and grasses found on the 83-acre tract.

This male thick-billed longspur was nearly invisible on the shortgrass prairie north of Hillsdale. Longspurs are named for the long claw on their backward-facing toe.

Their new book, Sea of Grass, The Conquest, Ruin and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie, comes out May 27th. Download transcript (PDF) Transcription services provided by 3Play Media .

The long-billed curlew nests in short-grass prairie and incubates eggs on a ground nest. When one hears the prairie dog alarm, she responds by pressing her head, beak and belly close to the ground. In ...

The long-billed curlew nests in short-grass prairie and incubates eggs on a ground nest. When one hears the prairie dog alarm, she responds by pressing her head, beak and belly close to the ground.