For autumn upland bird hunters, it’s not difficult to find awe in big bluestem and other native prairie grasses that for a ...

Hunting season is here and this year I made it out for opening day. This is a rarity for me. An annual conference I attend in late October almost always overlaps the first day of pheasant season, but ...

Nature fans are seeing an increase in waterfowl and native plants at Powderhorn Prairie and Marsh a year after restoration ...

Other native grasses worth investigating include side oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), big bluestem (Andropogon geradii) and prairie dropseed (Sporabolus heterolepsis). Check out both native ...

The emphasis was on outdoor living and a Glen Mills meadow when Kevin Nolan and his wife, Mary Fran McLaughlin, decided to ...

such as big bluestem, reach even higher. Pampas grass is a tall ornamental grass that can tower over other plants in your landscape. The tufted blooming clusters of seed heads at the top of each ...

Even though its common name is Little Bluestem, this grass is in a different genus than Big Bluestem, Andropogon gerardii. Little Bluestem is in the Schizachyrium genus, and it is the only species in ...

Pete Lamar, a hunting friend, drew a free upland game permit for Franklin Creek State Natural Area--Nachusa Prairie, which ...

Photo Credit: T.Voekler / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Big bluestem is a warm-season perennial grass that grows in clumps and has stiff straight stems. It is blue-green when it first sprouts in ...

Plants such as Indiangrass, big bluestem, prickly pear, false aloe ... A diversity of wildflowers and prairie grasses will attract many species of bees, butterflies, and grasshoppers, but it is also a ...