Picture the open grasslands of North America, alive with the chatter of prairie dogs—creatures so unassuming, yet so ...

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

These prairie plants help improve the soil while also protecting his more fertile fields from bursts of heavy rain and severe storms, which are becoming more frequent.

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from ...

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

The Prairie Nursery online catalog, which offers woodland as well as prairie plants, groups species by their soil adaptation, which is a useful starting point for identifying a community. Diboll is ...

(Prairie wildflowers and grasses like fungal-dominated soil, he said.) Within a few years, native seeds that laid dormant for years re-sprouted. Wildflowers now bloom there 10 months of the year ...

These prairie plants help improve the soil while also protecting his more fertile fields from bursts of heavy rain and severe storms, which are becoming more frequent.

How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.

Dark soils like we have are usually high in organic matter. That stands to reason, because the Blackland Prairie was the ...