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Prairie - Wikipedia Lands typically referred to as "prairie" (a French loan word) tend to be in North America The term encompasses the lower and mid-latitude of the area referred to as the Interior Plains of Canada, the United States, and Mexico It includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter, hillier land to the east
A Complex Prairie Ecosystem - U. S. National Park Service In the rain shadow of Rocky Mountains, dry short-grass prairie thrives with ankle-high buffalo grass and blue grama The eastern tallgrass prairies are wetter, supporting big bluestem, Indian grass, and switch grass up to eight feet in areas
Prairie | Flora, Fauna Ecology | Britannica prairie, level or rolling grassland, especially that found in central North America Decreasing amounts of rainfall, from 100 cm (about 40 inches) at the forested eastern edge to less than 30 cm (about 12 inches) at the desertlike western edge, affect the species composition of the prairie grassland
Prairie - National Geographic Society When people talk about the prairie, they are usually referring to the golden, wheat-covered land in the middle of North America Prairies are enormous stretches of flat grassland with moderate temperatures, moderate rainfall, and few trees
How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it . . . Today, the tallgrass prairie, which covered most of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and the far eastern edge of the plains states, clings to about 1 percent of its former range Even the hardier shortgrass prairie of the American West has been reduced by more than half “This is the paradox of the prairie,” the authors write
American Prairie - Grassland Groupies The American Prairie is a huge part of grasslands in North America Learn about the historic and modern day prairie here