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State State grass Scientific name Image Year adopted California: Purple needlegrass: Nassella pulchra: 2004 [1] Colorado: Blue grama: Bouteloua gracilis: 1987 [2] Illinois: Big bluestem (state prairie grass) Andropogon gerardii: 1989 [3] Kansas: Little bluestem: Schizachyrium scoparium (Andropogon scoparius) 2010 [4] Minnesota: Wild rice (state ...
Prospect Cemetery State Preserve [21] Queen Anne Prairie Cemetery, Woodstock, Illinois [11] Rochester Cemetery, Cedar County, Iowa, [22] [23] established 1830s on 13.5 acres (5.5 ha; 0.055 km 2) of hills in sand prairie-savanna grassland near the Cedar River [24] Smith Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve, [10] Darby Township, Madison County, Ohio [25]
Name Photo Location [4] Date formed Area [1] Description Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie: Illinois: 1996: 20,283 acres (82.1 km 2) [5]: The only federally managed prairie east of the Mississippi River, Midewin is in the Central forest-grasslands transition ecoregion and was created when land was transferred to the U.S. Forest Service from the U.S. Army.
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 ...
Sideoats grama is a warm-season grass. The culms (flowering stems) are 30–100 cm (12–39 in) tall, [4] and have alternate leaves that are concentrated at the bottom of the culm. [5] The leaves are light green to blue-green in color, and up to 6 mm (1 ⁄ 4 in) across. [5] Alternately arranged spikes in a raceme. The flowers bloom in summer ...
Aug. 11—A project similar to one started earlier this summer in Todd Park will bring more native grasses and flowers to the heart of Austin. A joint venture between the Mower Soil and Water ...
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.
Sisyrinchium campestre, the prairie blue-eyed grass or white-eyed grass, [2] [3] is a small herbaceous perennial plant in the iris family, native to prairie and meadow in the central United States and in extreme southern Manitoba. [4] Prairie blue-eyed grass is one of the more drought tolerant species in the genus.