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 ...

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 ...

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 ...