Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) is a warm-season tall perennial grass with blue-green leaves that turn a lovely golden yellow in the fall, producing dainty yellow-gold panicles (branched flower ...

In Iowa they call it “black gold” – a fertile blanket covering the landlocked Midwestern state. Thousands of years of prairie grass growth, death and decomposition have left a thick layer of ...

gold and blue. Almost all of these grasses and flowers occur farther east on patches of native prairie scattered across the plains, but here they grow much higher and in breathtaking profusion.

Should prairie grass be replanted along Sunset Drive and Juergens Drive? That was the question Jordan City Council members debated on Tuesday, Sept. 6. According to Public Works Director Steve ...