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  2. List of U.S. state grasses - Wikipedia

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    State grass Scientific name Image Year adopted California: Purple needlegrass: Nassella pulchra: 2004 [1] Colorado: Blue grama: Bouteloua gracilis: 1987 [2] Illinois: Big bluestem (state prairie grass) Andropogon gerardii: 1989 [3] Kansas: Little bluestem: Schizachyrium scoparium (Andropogon scoparius) 2010 [4] Minnesota: Wild rice (state grain ...

  3. Prairie restoration - Wikipedia

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    As an example, the U.S. state of Illinois alone once held over 35,000 square miles (91,000 km 2) of prairie land and now just 3 square miles (7.8 km 2) of that original prairie land is left. The over farming of this land as well as periods of drought and its exposure to the elements (no longer bound together by the tall grasses) was responsible ...

  4. List of protected grasslands of North America - Wikipedia

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    The tallgrass prairie ecosystem covered some 170 million acres (690,000 km 2) of North America. Besides agriculture, much of the shortgrass prairie became grazing land for domestic livestock . Short grasslands occur in semi-arid climates while tall grasslands are in areas of higher rainfall.

  5. Nachusa Grasslands - Wikipedia

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    Most of northern Illinois was tallgrass prairie at the time of statehood in 1818. In the ensuing century, the vast majority of this prairie was plowed up for arable farmland. [ 3 ] A Nature Conservancy planning process, aimed at building a restored tallgrass prairie ecosystem in Illinois, commenced in 1985; the first major land acquisition of ...

  6. Tucker Prairie - Wikipedia

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    Tucker Prairie is a 146-acre (590,000 m 2) tallgrass prairie in the U.S. state of Missouri. Never plowed by farmers, [ 2 ] the prairie patch is operated as a National Natural Landmark by the Division of Biological sciences of the University of Missouri , which is headquartered relatively close to the prairie.

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  8. Sphenopholis obtusata - Wikipedia

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    Sphenopholis obtusata is a species of grass known by the common names prairie wedgescale [1] and prairie wedge grass. It is native to North America where it is widespread across southern Canada and the United States. It occurs in many types of habitat, including prairie, marshes, dunes, and disturbed areas.

  9. Sporobolus heterolepis - Wikipedia

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    Sporobolus heterolepis, commonly known as prairie dropseed, [1] is a species of prairie grass native to the tallgrass and mixed grass prairies of central North America from Texas to southern Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also found further east, to the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada , but is much less common beyond the Great Plains ...

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