Scraps and tatters are about all that’s left of the beautiful tallgrass prairie that once covered most of Iowa with big bluestem, Indian grass, blazing star, and rattlesnake master. Little strips of ...

MOORHEAD — Andrew Brownlow knelt on mowed grass beside a semicircle designed to bring back the prairie to urban areas. Gingerly, he slipped a swamp milkweed plug into a hole and packed the earth ...

MASON CITY — Including prairie flowers in a home landscaping project or multi-acre seeding project does more than just provide bright colors to an area. The colors provided by the prairie flowers are ...

The bright visage of butterflies fluttering in a field of swaying golden paintbrush flowers was a rare sight up until a few years ago. The perennial flower, native to prairie lands in the Pacific ...

If you are looking for a tall flowering plant to frame the back of your flower garden, prairie dock may just be the thing. Prairie dock is a hardy perennial plant native to Michigan and other nearby ...

As the new millennium neared, only 10 places remained throughout the prairies of the South Puget Sound region where the bright, yellow flowers of the golden paintbrush could be found. Federal ...

Elizabeth Seymour in her garden at Mountain Prairie Flower Farm. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Flowers growing at Mountain Prairie Flower Farm in Whitefish. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Elizabeth ...