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 ...

The project started modestly, as many do — “with a few prairie plants along the driveway,” Guy Denny recalled. But with the vigor and beauty of the plants as inspiration, the project in Knox County ...

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 ...

In a matter of hours they would be gone. To see the blue flowers of the prairie spiderwort in full bloom at Henry Panowitsch’s 10-acre native prairie just north of Good Thunder, you have to get there ...

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 ...

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 ...