A monarch butterfly forages on an ironweed flower in the native lawn of Karen Rawson in the front yard of her home in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, September 9, 2024. Rawson began replacing ...

Iowa was once completely covered by prairie, but that native flora has been wiped off the map by the monocultures of corn and ...

AMES, Iowa – A recently awarded federal grant will help an innovative Iowa State University program expand its mission to protect soil and water quality by planting strips of native prairie on ...

The deployment of native perennial groundcover across utility assets –– from solar sites to transmission rights-of-way (ROWs) ...

CEDAR FALLS — Earth movers will tear out a reconstructed prairie from the site of the planned new Cedar Falls High School when work begins next spring. Fortunately, volunteers are preserving some of ...

Tyler Kruse pulls weeds away from various prairie plants while tending to his pocket prairie on his property in Oxford, Iowa on Monday, July 28, 2025. Kruse said he consulted with a professional ...

But thanks to the efforts of the Iowa Department of Transportation, a profusion of wildflowers bloom along nearby roadsides, original species that once greeted the early explorers. Along Interstate 29 ...

A seldom observed remnant of Iowa’s historic past, the rare and delicate pasque flower, is currently on full display at North Iowa’s Kothenbeutel Heritage Prairie. Pasque flowers are the very first ...

Loved for its relaxed, informal and romantic style, prairie planting seeks to replicate the American prairies of the Midwest. Using native species and minimal human input, prairie gardens continue to ...

URBANA, Ill. — Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you’re picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, perhaps a few asters. But plant ecologists at the University of ...