Prairie dropseed, or Sporobolus heterolepis, is a beautiful and showy grass native to the prairies of Ohio. Its fountain of delicate leaves can add a certain lyrical quality to a garden as they sway ...

Across the Great Plains, including Texas, there are a gradient of physical conditions going from west to east as you cross the shortgrass prairie through the mixed grass prairie to the tall grass ...

Prairies once extended in a broad, almost continuous band from southern Saskatchewan, Canada, into the Midwest and Central United States and southward to Texas and New Mexico. These vast grasslands ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Tiller recruitment from the belowground bud bank of caespitose grasses influences their ability to monopolize local resources and, hence, their genet fitness. Differences in bud ...

As the days shortens in length and the ochre color deepens as the native grasses cure, the unique ecology of the High Plains Prairie offers an abundance of scenic vistas: golden shimmering seas of ...

MINNEAPOLIS-ST.PAUL (12/04/2006)—Highly diverse mixtures of native prairie plant species have emerged as a leader in the quest to identify the best source of biomass for producing sustainable, ...

A scientist helping construct rainout shelters (in the background) on the experimental site on the Buffalo Gap National Grassland. Just outside Badlands National Park in west central South Dakota, the ...

Badlands National Park offers stunning geologic deposits and mixed-grass prairie landscapes spread over 244,000 acres. Visit the park in June for lush landscapes and spring wildlife, or choose ...

Excavations at the Linville II site have provided new information on early Plains Village adaptations in the mixed grass prairie of western Oklahoma. The site is assigned to the Custer phase (A.D. 800 ...