Once upon a time, vast expanses of North America were covered in wild prairie, shimmering oceans of grass festooned with wildflowers and teeming with animal life. Today, less than 15% of tallgrass ...

In an urban prairie, Buffalograss can be an understory to taller shortgrass prairie grasses such as Little Bluestem (Blog Entry 4-17-2023) or Sideoats Grama (Blog entries 1-24-2021 and 4-10-2023).

Ornamental grasses are often under-utilized in the prairie landscape. Whether they are used as a taller focal point in a perennial bed or as a group of short clump grasses in a rock garden, the ...

Out in northeastern Montana's rain-deprived hinterland, the short-grass prairie is especially short this fall. It's short as the felt on a pool table. The effusive ankle-high grass boosted by the ...

The long-billed curlew nests in short-grass prairie and incubates eggs on a ground nest. When one hears the prairie dog alarm, she responds by pressing her head, beak and belly close to the ground. In ...

Restoring what remains of America’s short grass prairie ecosystems has been identified by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as a priority in the agency’s efforts to rehabilitate the ...

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As part of my PhD thesis at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, I study the Texas brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi) in the short-grass prairie.My colleagues and I work on the Southern ...

Tallgrass prairie, an ecosystem made up of a variety of tall grasses, is making a comeback, as people everywhere from Winnipeg to Selkirk, about 40 km northeast of the capital, shift from turf ...

Prairie Fire sedge (Carex testacea) is a lovely tufted evergreen plant with a big personality.Although they look similar, sedges aren’t the same as ornamental grasses. Here is a short rhyme to ...