As their name implies, each dayflower blossom is fleeting.
Author: Gerry Steinauer
Nebraska’s Monkey-flowers
The roundleaf monkey-flower’s favorite haunts include the slow shallows of spring-fed Sandhills streams and the sandy-bottomed pools of spring-branch canyon streams flowing into the central Niobrara River.
Discovering Slime Molds
The slime molds’ DNA suggests they are ancient creatures, one to two billion years old, slithering over the Earth’s barren rock surface at a time when the only other land creatures were bacteria.
Turtle Love
One morning last June, while photographing wildflowers in the Sandhills blowout, I came upon a pair of ornate box turtles.
Prairie Seeds in Winter
Seeds are plants’ life blood: its agent of dispersal to new habitats, as well as the foundation of its next generation.
Restoring the Blowout Penstemon
It is extremely difficult to restore the rare blowout penstemon, but encouraging efforts are underway.