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Bouteloua dactyloides, commonly known as buffalograss or buffalo grass, is a North American prairie grass native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It is a short grass found mainly on the High Plains and is co-dominant with blue grama (B. gracilis) over most of the shortgrass prairie. Buffalo grass in North America is not the same ...
The grass occurs on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, [1] including much of the southeastern United States, Texas, [2] [3] Mexico, and Central and South America. [1] It has escaped cultivation in California, [4] Hawaii, many Pacific islands, South Africa and New Zealand. [1] [5] St. Augustine grass occurs in most Caribbean and Mediterranean ...
Buffalo grass may refer to Buffalo grass, sweet vernal grass or vanilla grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) Buffalo grass (Bouteloua dactyloides) Buffalo grass (Brachiaria mutica) Buffalo grass or sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata) Buffalo grass or St. Augustine grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) Buffalograss, another name for Guinea grass (Panicum maximum)
Cenchrus ciliaris (buffel-grass [2] or African foxtail grass; syn. Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link) is a species of grass native to most of Africa, southern Asia (east to India), southern Iran, and the extreme south of Europe . [3] Other names by which this grass is known include dhaman grass, anjan grass and koluk katai. [4] [5]
Anthoxanthum odoratum is a short-lived perennial grass, commonly known as sweet vernal grass, that is native to acidic grassland in Eurasia and northern Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is grown as a lawn grass and a house plant , due to its sweet scent, and can also be found on unimproved pastures and meadows.
Ziziphus mucronata, known as the buffalo thorn, is a species of tree in the family Rhamnaceae, native to southern Africa. It is deciduous and may grow up to 17 metres tall. It can survive in a variety of soil types, occurring in many habitats, mostly open woodlands, often on soils deposited by rivers, and grows frequently on termite mounds.
Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the order Poales, known as grasses.With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species, [1] the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family, following the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae.
Themeda triandra is a species of C 4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific [2].In Australia it is commonly known as kangaroo grass [3] and in East Africa and South Africa it is known as red grass and red oat grass or as rooigras in Afrikaans.