Many prairie plants are also highly resistant to drought, temperature extremes, disease, and native insect pests.

Overgrown prairie plants flew as the giant worm tilled and plunged back into the soil.

These savannas can survive through droughts because the oaks and the prairie plants have taproots that reach down to the water table.

The cemetery was the site of the last native prairie plants in Scott County.

They are tough prairie plants, ones that can take both drought and deluge in their stride.

It's almost like a prairie plant.

And controlled burns, which allow prairie plants to renew themselves, take place several times each year, often attracting crowds of spectators.

The light plate is dominated by prairie plants: grasses, coneflowers, prairie-smoke and no trees.

Part of the affinity for prairie plants, he said, stems from the fact that no artificial life-support is necessary, as with sod.

These deep roots also helped native prairie plants reach water in even the driest conditions.