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Sarah Lariviere tore out her lawn and paid for a low-water replacement with a turf removal rebate. Here's how she made it happen.
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.
In botany, drought tolerance is the ability by which a plant maintains its biomass production during arid or drought conditions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Some plants are naturally adapted to dry conditions , surviving with protection mechanisms such as desiccation tolerance , detoxification , or repair of xylem embolism. [ 3 ]
Editor’s note: This story is part one of a two-part series on the catastrophic seagrass die-offs plaguing nearly all of Florida’s coastal waters. The die-offs persist, raising the question ...
In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf of Mexico coast facing a drought.
The Florida dry prairie is a herbaceous upland plant community found in subtropical southern Florida. It consists of plains covered in grasses , low shrubs, and few widely scattered trees. It was originally found on the plains near the Kissimmee River and Fisheating Creek connected to Lake Okeechobee , but conversion to agriculture and pasture ...
In terms of grass species, this type appears to be one of "the most salt-tolerant species" [7]: 1583 in terms of grasses. In "saline conditions, plant growth is restricted". [7]: 1574 Since Chloris gayana shows good salt tolerance, this type of grass can be beneficial to farmers who have salinity problems in their soil.
Moss lawns are drought-tolerant and rarely need misting once established (the average US grass lawn uses a hundred times as much water). They do not require mowing, fertilizing, or other amendments, and grow on almost any substrate (apart from metal), and at any soil pH and light level.