The cover of "Sea of Grass" and authors Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Chris Bentley/Here & Now) The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in ...

In Visions of the Tall Grass: Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne, two old friends, photographer Harvey Payne and historian James Ronda, explore what’s left of the prairie they love together.

Experimental "prairie farm" designed to prove farmers can make a living off native grasses From the air, South Dakota looks like a patchwork quilt, as if someone neatly sectioned off the landscape ...

Home on the range: the American bison’s taste for prairie grasses helps to boost diversity of native flora (pictured, stiff goldenrod, Solidago rigida). Credit: Jill Haukos/Kansas State University.

A homeowner stunned Redditors with gorgeous progress photos of their transformed native-plant lawn. Located in south-central Wisconsin (Zone 5B), the prairie lawn is a thriving oasis of blooming ...

Pampas Grass getty images . Big Bluestem. Often thought of as a prairie grass, bluestem has a wider range than that, extending across the eastern two thirds of the United States.

Easy-to-grow native flowers include Black-eye Susan, coneflowers, blanket flower, switch grass, wild rye, goldenrod, and columbine. Many of these self-sow and fill out your garden by themselves.

Three workshops on the grasses that gave Illinois the nickname ”Prairie State” are being sponsored by the Lake County Forest Preserve District. The first will be held at 10 a.m. Saturda… ...

Grass fires on the eastern Kansas prairie, as seen from NASA's Aqua satellite. (Image credit: NASA images courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.) ...