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Bouteloua gracilis, the blue grama, is a long-lived, warm-season (C4) 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. Blue grama accounts for most of the ...
The top of a hairy grama (Bouteloua hirsuta) flower spike, showing the flattened rachis. Bouteloua includes both annual and perennial grasses, which frequently form stolons. [9] Species have an inflorescence of 1 to 80 racemes or spikes positioned alternately on the culm (stem).
Melica curtipendula (Michx.) Steud. Bouteloua curtipendula, commonly known as sideoats grama, [3] is a perennial, short prairie grass that is native throughout the temperate and tropical Western Hemisphere, from Canada south to Argentina. The species epithet comes from Latin curtus "shortened" and pendulus "hanging".
Knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata) Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa): well known in mountains. Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta): used for early construction of buildings and other structures. Monterey pine (Pinus radiata): naturally limited endemic range; widely planted horticulturally around the world.
Sesleria dactyloides Nutt. (1818) 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.
Microsteris gracilis is an annual herb which is variable in shape, taking a decumbent, branching, sometimes almost tuftlike form or growing erect and very slender. Its maximum height approaches 20 centimeters, but it may be much smaller. The lance-shaped leaves are 1 to 3 centimeters long and oppositely arranged except for the upper ones, which ...
Bouteloua eriopoda, commonly known as black grama, is a perennial prairie grass that is native to the Southwestern United States. Its main means of reproduction is by stolons, as its ratio of viable seeds to sterile ones is naturally low. The disparity may play a role in its lack of tolerance to overgrazing (relative to other grasses), but ...
Carex inops is a species of sedge known as long-stolon sedge [1] and western oak sedge. [2] It is native to northern North America, where it occurs throughout the southern half of Canada and the western and central United States. There are two subspecies; Carex inops subsp. inops is limited to the west coast from British Columbia to California ...