Native grasses, flowers part of new 10,000-square-foot garden

URBANA – Prairie plants are making a comeback at the University of Illinois.

At its South Lincoln Avenue home, the College of Veterinary Medicine's Basic Sciences Building is now surrounded by 8,000 seedlings of the plants that were there before the plow broke the sod.

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