East Lansing City Council members voted Tuesday night to provide an exemption in the city’s nuisance lawn ordinance for ...

Saccharum giganteum (Erianthus giganteus), courtesy the John Clayton Chapter, Virginia Native Plant Society. President Helen Hamilton provides this description of the native grass: A very showy, ...

Prairie dropseed, or Sporobolus heterolepis, is a beautiful and showy grass native to the prairies of Ohio. Its fountain of delicate leaves can add a certain lyrical quality to a garden as they sway ...

Curly Mesquite (Hilaria Belanger) is a native, warm season grass that grows from Central Texas and Arizona south throughout Mexico. It is a grass, a monocot and not related to mesquite trees, which ...

Native grasses can be used in a landscape either as specimen plants or for a bluegrass lawn alternative or to create a native prairie landscape. While a native grass lawn or prairie landscape is not ...

Thumb through any recent gardening or landscaping publication and chances are there is an article about how to plant and grow a native grass lawn as a substitute for conventional turf grass. Depending ...

If you visit a saltmarsh on the East or Gulf coasts of the United States, you’ll see mostly smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora. This grassy species forms dense colonies along the shoreline and ...

Suburban homeowners can do themselves and the environment a big favor by replacing grass lawns with native plants. The trouble is that too many of us feel peer pressure from neighbors to use ...