Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’) is a real showstopper in the fall garden ... vertical interest and movement to borders, prairie gardens, or naturalized areas.

In a desert prairie of Texas, crop contents consisted of 48 percent buffalograss, 21 percent blue grama, 19 percent burrograss, 5 percent fall witchgrass, 5 percent Muhlenbergia sp., and 2 percent of ...

The second best time is mid-October, when the summer grasses turn red for the prairie’s version of fall colors. Hikes in the morning and evening will afford you beautiful light and a little escape ...

Thousands of years of prairie grass growth, death and decomposition ... but now we are getting bigger rain events where six inches fall and that hits the soil on farms.” ...

We’ve come here for the flowers. Five adults and a small child — all prairie-dwellers, all happy to be out of the car and moving through knee-high grasses. Blossoms of yarrow, bergamot ...