Colorado Tallgrass Prairie Natural Area Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summary The tallgrass prairie is characterized by three species of waist-high grasses which interestingly all have bluish stems during the summer growing season which turn to red-bronze in...
Pawnee Buttes National Grassland Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Shortgrass Prairie The shortgrass prairie occurs on the eastern plains of Colorado from the foothills to the eastern border in Nebraska and Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle. The vast majority of...