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Bouteloua gracilis, commonly called blue grama or mosquito grass, is a tufted, warm season, Missouri native grass noted for its distinctive arrangement of mosquito larvae-like seed spikes which hang from only one side of its flowering stems.
Bouteloua gracilis, the blue grama, is a long-lived, warm-season perennial grass, native to North America. [2] [4] [5] It is most commonly found from Alberta, Canada, east to Manitoba and south across the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and U.S. Midwest states, onto the northern Mexican Plateau in Mexico.
Low-growing and compact, Bouteloua gracilis (Blue Grama) is a densely tufted, warm-season, ornamental grass noted for its intriguing inflorescences resembling tiny brushes. Suspended horizontally from only one side of the flowering stems, the flowers are red-tinted before they bleach to a straw color.
Blue gramma is a small warm-season ornamental grass in the Poaceae (grass) family. It is native to the central region of North America. The genus name Bouteloua comes from Spanish botanists Exteban and Claudius Boutelou, and the species epithet gracilis is Latin for graceful.
Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis) is a widespread, long-lived, warm-season, perennial grass native to North America. It is most commonly found from Alberta east to Manitoba and south across the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and Midwest states to Mexico.
Bouteloua gracilis — blue grama. Copyright: various copyright holders. To reuse an image, please click it to see who you will need to contact. Facts. Blue grama is an occasional visitor to New England, having been collected in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont.
Beautiful, tawny prairie Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama or mosquito grass) draws your eye to the horizon and is is drought tolerant, largely free of pests and impervious to deer.
Bouteloua gracilis grows in pure stands in mixed prairie associations and disturbed habitats, usually on rocky or clay soils and mainly at elevations of 300-3000 m. Its native range extends from Canada to central Mexico; records from the eastern portion of the Flora represent introductions.
Photos and information about Minnesota flora - Blue Grama: raceme-like cluster of erect to spreading branches; 40 to 130 spikelets tightly packed in 2 rows on the rachis, 1-flowered, 4 to 6 mm long, glumes long hairy on the keel.
Native species like Blue Grama Grass provide property owners with a resilient, fine-textured grass that withstands drought, provides ornamental seed heads in late summer and habitat for numerous beneficial insects, songbirds and small animals. Here are easy step-by-step instructions for preparing and sowing Blue Grama grass seed.