In July and August, gardens, wild spaces and prairies have been replete with compass plants. I’ve seen dozens at the corner of Midlothian and Magnolia Road in Mundelein, and hundreds in a prairie at ...

If you are looking for a tall flowering plant to frame the back of your flower garden, prairie dock may just be the thing. Prairie dock is a hardy perennial plant native to Michigan and other nearby ...

As August winds down, the flowers in my home garden are nearing the end of their seasonal lifespan. But here at Lapham Peak, yellow prairie dock and compass plant shoot into the sky, leaning toward ...

The efforts of seeding and dreaming of a prairie adjacent to the parking lot of Harvey One-Room School have begun to pay off. Eleven years ago after contacting, then consulting with, naturalist Warren ...

Everywhere I roam, it’s a sea of yellow. My backyard is glowing with black-eyed Susans, and several kinds of goldenrod. Butler Lake in Libertyville is edged with sneezeweed, while the yellow blooms of ...