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 ...

“Pocket prairies are areas dominantly planted with native short prairie grasses and a variety of short perennials (all under 24″ high) in clusters or drifts throughout the planting,” says ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most plants have nodes where new growth sprouts; in most grasses that node lies close to the ground, even belowground, safe from the teeth of elk, antelope, and bison.

Grinnell College students planted 5,200-square-foot prairie on campus, opting to cut out the sod and remove it rather than using herbicide to kill the grass. The space now will have 40 different ...

PARK TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The former airport in Park Township will be turned into a native shortgrass prairie — with additional recreational opportunities available on the property — following ...