Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mat-forming perennial grass (Bouteloua dactyloides syn. Buchloe dactyloides) native to the plains of central North America, important as a forage grass and sometimes used for lawns.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
buffalo grass .
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Examples
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Short grasses, such as buffalograss, tobosa, and black grama become more common in the west and northwest portions of Ecoregion 30d as the climate becomes more arid.
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Where the land has been intensively grazed, short grasses such as buffalograss predominate, and invading cacti and honey mesquite are common.
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The potential natural vegetation is mixed-grass prairie which includes a prevalence of shortgrass species, such as buffalograss, and it lacks the sagebrush component found in the neighboring Sagebrush Steppe (43e).
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The natural vegetation in this region is mostly grama-buffalograss, with some juniper-scrub oak-grass savanna on escarpment bluffs.
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The Llano Estacado was once covered with shortgrass prairie, composed of buffalograss, blue and sideoats grama, and little and silver bluestem.
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Soils of the mesquite-buffalograss and juniper-oak savannas are almost entirely Mollisols; an island of Alfisols within the area corresponds to the boundaries of the mesquite-oak savanna.
Southwest Plateau and Plains Dry Steppe and Shrub Province (Bailey) 2009
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Blue grama-buffalograss or blue grama-western wheatgrass was the natural prairie type, different from the sand sagebrush-mixed bluestem prairie of Ecoregion 25b.
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The Limestone Plains are covered by mixed grass prairie of little bluestem, yellow Indiangrass, and buffalograss, with scattered honey mesquite.
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Some areas of sideoats grama and little bluestem, with blue grama, western wheatgrass, galleta, and buffalograss also occurred.
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Other native range plants include sideoats grama, blue grama, buffalograss, switchgrass, yellow Indiangrass, and yucca.
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