The North American prairies are an area from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba down to southern Texas and Mexico, and approximately 1,000 miles from western Indiana westward to the Rocky Mountains. The American prairie covers about 1.4 million square miles, and is home to many plants and animals. The North American Prairie is considered a grassland, savanna, shrub land biome by scientists, Most of the plants in the north american prairies are small grasses and wild flowers with some type of thorn on them. There are three different kinds of grasses in the american prairies wet (grows in wet conditions, stagnant water), mesic (Good drainage most often agricultural) , and dry (can grow in somewhat wet to very dry conditions). The american