Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you're picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you’re picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

Discover why Kansas prairie grasslands are vital, endangered, and how you can help protect this hidden natural treasure.

The featured flower on this walk is the purple prairie blazing star, an important part of tall grass prairies.

America features many bold and beautiful landscapes, but there's one memorable and majestic ecosystem that you can recreate in your own yard.

“The suite of plants and animals that you see in tallgrass prairie are all there because they can tolerate fire every few years,” Bach said.

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 ...

“Sea of Grass,” written by Hage and former Star Tribune environmental reporter Josephine Marcotty, hit bookstores just before ...

The Tallgrass Prairie Center has multiple plots of flowers and grass behind its facility, all in an attempt to grow plants to harvest seeds to create more restored prairies.

The orchid is a unique insight into its nearly vanished ecosystem — the tallgrass prairie — as well as for understanding connectedness with pollinators and other plants, and is a good model ...

The gently rounded hills roll like ocean swells—nothing but amber grass and prairie flowers to the edge of the sky. To the west, a lone bison grazes in a creek draw.

The gently rounded hills roll like ocean swells—nothing but amber grass and prairie flowers to the edge of the sky. To the west, a lone bison grazes in a creek draw.