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Poa pratensis, commonly known as Kentucky bluegrass (or blue grass), smooth meadow-grass, or common meadow-grass, is a perennial species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco.
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
Bluegrass: website, 734 acres, over 10 miles of trails, nature center, operated by the city Salato Wildlife Education Center: Frankfort: Franklin: Bluegrass: website, operated by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, includes indoor exhibits and outdoor trails with native wildlife on display, 262 acres, 4 miles of trails
The Arboretum, State Botanical Garden of Kentucky (Also known as University of Kentucky Arboretum or Lexington Arboretum), 40 hectares or 100 acres (0.40 km 2), is located at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It is open to the public from dawn to dusk every day of the year.
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Kentucky is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Kentucky [1] [2 ...
The exhibition, "Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature," will include a reforestation effort that involves planting 100 native trees in Elysian Park and five at the Kuruvungna Village Springs in West ...
Its destruction was so rapid and complete, that mid-20th century ecologists mistook the successional state of the Bluegrass as its natural condition. Sun-loving species such as hackberry (Celtis occidentalis), black cherry (Prunus serotina), black walnut (Juglans nigra), and white ash (Fraxinus americana) now dominate much of the Bluegrass region.
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