Blue Grama Grass: What It Is And How To Grow It
网页2022年7月6日 · Blue Grama grass is the most common native prairie grass in North America and it’s starting to gain favor as a drought-hardy, low maintenance, and attractive turfgrass. Like Buffalo Grass, it thrives in nutrient-poor and water scarce regions, and even when irrigated, still takes less than a ⅓ of the water that Kentucky Bluegrass needs.
Blue Grama Grass: Drought-Tolerant Native Turf - Epic Gardening
网页2023年6月22日 · The Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama grass) plant is most commonly found in parts of Western Canada and south across the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Colorado Springs, and some Midwest states into Mexico. It’s considered one of the Big 4 native grasses in Texas down to Mexico, and it is Colorado’s state grass!
Bouteloua gracilis - Wikipedia
网页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.
Specimen Spotlight: Blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis)
网页2024年9月7日 · Hidden in plain sight, a grass species exists with a charm that rivals even the most showy plants: blue grama grass, Bouteloua gracilis. The genus Bouteloua is named in honor of the Spanish botanists Claudio and Esteban Boutelou brothers, who made significant contributions to botany in the late 18th century.
网页Bouteloua gracilis, blue grama, is a major warm season grass found throughout the Great Plains. The plant is fairly short, reaching 10 to 20 inches with narrow basal leaves of 3 to 6 inches. Blue grama grows in definite bunches and reproduces by tillering and by seed.
Bouteloua gracilis - US Forest Service
网页Grassland associations: Blue grama is an important component of the shortgrass prairie [22,33,91,118,184], co-dominating with buffalo grass and occurring with hairy grama, purple threeawn, Sandberg bluegrass, threadleaf sedge, and little bluestem [3,7,22,33,91,94,230].
Blue Grama (Gander at Grasses (October 2021 EcoQuest ... - iNaturalist
网页Blue grama is the dominant species of the US shortgrass steppe ecoregion. Populations of blue grama across the great plains are genetically differentiated (even at small spatial scales) and show functional trait variance connected to climate. Blue grama from more arid grasslands are also characterized by greater phenotypic plasticity.
Blue grama - University of Wyoming
网页Blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths) Adaptation: Warm season perennial native grass. Adapted to a wide variety of soils; occurs more frequently on heavy upland soils. It tolerates drought and alkalinity, but not wet or poorly drained soils. Intolerant of shade and acidic soils.
Sowing Native Grasses: How To Plant Blue Grama Grass …
网页Native species like Blue Grama Grass provide property owners with a resilient, fine-textured grass that withstands drought, provides ornamental seed heads in late summer and habitat for numerous beneficial insects, songbirds and small animals. Here are easy step-by-step instructions for preparing and sowing Blue Grama grass seed.
Blue Grama Grass Bouteloua gracilis - Gardenista
网页Growing Blue Grama Grass: Tips at a Glance. Beautiful, tawny prairie Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama or mosquito grass) draws your eye to the horizon and is is drought tolerant, largely free of pests and impervious to deer. Type Ornamental grass ; Lifespan Perennial ; USDA Zones 3-10 ; Light Sun ; Water Drought tolerant ; Foliage Eyelash flowers