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Bouteloua gracilis- Blue Grama

  Description: Only 12-14 in. in full flower, this is among the shortest of the native ornamental grasses. It is fine-leaved and produces blue-green seedheads which are suspended horizontally like tiny brushes from the tip of each stem. The plant turns tan when dormant. Blue grama grows in bunches in the south, and as a sod-former in the north and at high elevations. It is a perennial.

 Comments: This is an Important, drought-resistant, short grass in the mixed prairies and throughout the Great Plains and Southwest. It can be confused with Hairy grama Grass (B.hirusta), which is distinguished by a sharp point extending beyond the florets. A somewhat similar but shorter species, buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), is usually less that 6" (15cm) high and is typical of dry short-grass plains.

Bouteloua gracilis Blue Grama

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