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.

Those taking a recent tallgrass prairie hike at Oak Ridge Prairie County Park in Griffith experienced more than just physical exercise among the flora and fauna. Some were able to identify specific… ...

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

Scraps and tatters are about all that’s left of the beautiful tallgrass prairie that once covered most of Iowa with big bluestem, Indian grass, blazing star, and rattlesnake master.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, in the Kansas Flint Hills, ... Plants and animals maintain a complex relationship, pollinating flowers, spreading seeds, ...

LITTLE ROCK — An innovative project to save a precious remnant of native tallgrass prairie near Siloam Springs has proved successful enough to draw national attention and serve as a model for ...

Soil microbial community composition in tallgrass prairie restorations converge with remnants across a 27-year chronosequence. Environmental Microbiology , 2017; DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13785 Cite ...

Tallgrass prairie is one of the most threatened and least protected habitats in the world. Over the past several years, native plants have been disappearing from prairies, especially those not ...

The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie near Wilmington, which the U.S. Forest Service manages, covers another 20,000 acres. About 3,000 acres there are actively undergoing restoration or enhancement.

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.