Sometimes the best way to kindle a romance is with actual fire. After tracking flowers on a prairie in Minnesota for 21 years, scientists reported this week that the plants reproduce more ...

Now, about eight of these gently scented plants are starting to bloom in a wet depression in the front yard. As July ...

Ever wonder what the Plains Indians used for food? If you answered bison or buffalo, you are partially correct. There's no ...

Woolly mammoths depended on tiny flowering plants for protein. Did the decline of the flowers cause their extinction?

Say hello to the wooly devil. The type of sunflower is a new plant species, identified in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Ovicula biradiata, as it is formally known, is especially notable for ...

LEADPLANT (Amorpha canescens) Height: 2′-3′ In Bloom: May – July The short, woolly gray hairs of the leaves of this plant suggest its common name. BIG BLUESTEM GRASS (Andropogon gerardiI) Height: 5′-7 ...

The woolly butterfly bush (Buddleia marrubiifolia) is a near-native from the neighboring Chihuahuan desert. It’s a great pollinator plant, has attractive grey-green leaves and bright orange ...

A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by ...

After decades of looking for new and exotic plants, gardeners are starting to use what’s local: our native prairie shrubs. “Native shrubs combined with exotics give us a huge palette of… ...

They included relatives of plants such as prairie sagewort, yarrow, chrysanthemums and asters, the researchers discovered. That means mammoth steppes were probably crazy quilts of blooming plants.

The so-called “woolly devil” is tiny, pale and well camouflaged amid limestone-rich rocks and look-alike plants in Texas’s Big Bend National Park, where it was discovered.

The 30-acre tall grass prairie preserve, with its interpretive centre located at 2795 Ness Ave., is home to more than 160 species of prairie plants as well as prairie wildlife.