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Definition of Bouteloua gracilis
1. Noun. A pasture grass of western North America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bouteloua Gracilis
Literary usage of Bouteloua gracilis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Llano Estacado of the Us Southern High Plains: Environmental by Elizabeth Brooks (2000)
"... blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), and hairy grama (Bouteloua hirsuta), has
largely disappeared, but grasslands of some form persist in the open pasturage ..."
2. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
"Dominant grasses are buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides) and blue grama (Bouteloua
gracilis), with varying amounts of ..."
3. Ecology, Diversity and Sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin edited by Deborah M. Finch, Joseph A. Tainter (1996)
"... and broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae), while the grass species include
blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), sideoats grama (B. curtipendula), ..."
4. A Manual of Farm Grasses by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1921)
"The sod of which the early settlers built sod houses consisted chiefly of buffalo
grass. Grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis (HBK) Lag.; ..."