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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 ...
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]
St. Augustine is a dark green grass with broad, flat blades. It spreads by aboveground stolons, commonly known as "runners", and forms a dense layer. 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]
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)
Panicum coloratum is a species of grass known by the common names kleingrass, blue panicgrass [1] (USA), [2] [3] white buffalograss (southern Africa); [1] Bambatsi panic, makarikari grass, [2] and coolah grass (Australia). [1] It is native to Africa, [3] and it has been introduced elsewhere, such as the United States and Australia, and bred ...
Cenchrus clandestinus is a rhizomatous grass with matted roots and a grass-like or herbaceous habit. The leaves are green, flattened or upwardly folded along the midrib, 10–150 mm (0.39–5.91 in) long, and 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) wide.
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.
This is a perennial grass forming clumps 30 centimetres to one metre tall with tough, dense bases sprouting from rhizomes. The inflorescence atop the wiry stem is a panicle of hairy spikelets with bent awns up to 3.5 centimetres long. The grass can grow in a variety of habitat types, in dry conditions, heavy, rocky, eroded soils, and disturbed ...