Native plants are the foundation of prairie ecosystems. Unlike turf grass or exotic ornamentals, Kansas natives evolved over thousands of years to thrive in the region’s unique climate and soils.

If you've got a short grass prairie, well ... You're like the Sherlock Holmes of native plants. That's wonderful. - It's a lot of work in the background. It really is. - Well, I mean, for someone ...

Volunteers added native plants to a grove of apple trees and eye adding other food producing plants in the future.

Recently this summer I was ordered by City of Decatur to remove my decades-plus long well-kept backyard simulated prairie garden because the height of the native tall-grasses and wildflowers ...

Between two corn fields in central Iowa, Lee Tesdell walks through a corridor of native prairie grasses and wildflowers. Crickets trill as dickcissels, small brown birds with yellow chests ...

The North American prairie ... of grass in a vast sea of corn and wheat. Today it covers some four million acres in eastern Kansas and northern Oklahoma and includes the Tallgrass Prairie National ...

A pocket prairie is a small garden in a landscape that includes native prairie grasses and wildflowers. Folks in a suburban or urban setting can have a natural area in their yard while providing ...

Native prairie grass and other native plants are dependent on bison to graze, crush and fertilize; bison in turn are dependent on prairie grass for sustenance in a symbiotic relationship.

We're thrilled to add this artist's book to our collection and invite all to visit the Emmett D. Chisum Special Collections reading room to experience its beauty firsthand and contemplate the native ...

The cover of "Sea of Grass" and authors Dave ... Oklahoma and includes the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, the nation’s largest remaining patch of native tallgrass prairie.