Blackland prairie

The Tallgrass Prairie, the most endangered ecosystem in North America, is coming back to life in North Texas with help from Blackland Prairie activists.

The Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion comprises a latitudinally long but narrow main belt, which runs from just south of the Red River in the north, south to San Antonio, and a smaller belt to the southeast, mostly embedded within the East Central Texas Savanna-Woodland ecoregion but bordering the Piney Woods on its northeastern edge.

Native prairie with purple coneflowers and big bluestem grass, Collin County, Texas near Farmersville

Red with yellow fringes = firewheel, Indian blanket; Gaillardia pulchella. Yellow = sundrops, square-bud primrose; Oenothera capillifolia. Yellow-orange = greenthread; Thelesperma filifolium. White…

At the June Chapter Meeting, on June 26th, Pat Merkord, Executive Director of the Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT), will be the speaker. Topics will include an overview of NPAT, why prai…

Oh, the dense colonies of wildflowers on the Blackland Prairie in Pflugerville on May 7th. Foremost here are clasping-leaf coneflowers (Dracopis amplexicaulis), with a colony of firewheels (Gaillar…

These wildflower mixes will do well throughout Texas. Blended specifically with native varieties that do well in heat and drought.

Texas prairie

Prairie native plants

Switch out your tired, old lawn for a beautiful, natural prairie garden that lures wildlife and provides vital backyard habitat.