Blue grama is a perennial grass from the Americas bearing unusually bent and flattened inflorescences. Being native to open grasslands, they are drought tolerant and at home in meadows.
Blue grama can grow up to 18 inches tall. It grows as a bunch grass, forming open sod mats. As it matures and is grazed on by animals, the bunches grow together and form the thick sod.
Common Name: Side Oats or Grama Grass
Latin Name: Bouteloua curtipendula
Habitat: Prairies, dry, open areas
Blooms: Summer ...
Bouteloua curtipendula (Sideoats Grama)
Bouteloua gracilis (Blue Grama)
Briza maxima (Great Quaking Grass, Rattlesnake Grass)
Buchloe dactyloides (Buffalo Grass)
Calamagrostis acutifolia (Feather Reed Grass) ...
Bouteloua curtipendula - Sideoats Grama
Carex appalachica -Appalachian Sedge
Carex elata - Golden Sedge *
Carex pennsylvanica - Pennsylvania Sedge *
Chasmanthium latifolium - River Oats *
Danthonia spp. - Oatgrass ...
Dominant grasses of these regions are buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides) and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis). Buffalograss is a vigorous, spreading grass that chokes out many wildflowers.
Buffalo grass usually grows together with the grama, or mesquite, grasses (genus Bouteloua), especially blue grama and side-oats grama.
(catalán), Agropyron repens (sinónimo), Aski-lizea (vasco), Askia (vasco), Atso-muturra (vasco), Atso-orio (vasco), Carrizo (castellano), Chièndent (francés), Couch-grass (inglés), Elymus repens (sinónimo), Elytrigia repens (sinónimo), Grama ...
Bouteloua gracilis Grass, Blue Grama
perennial, easy care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 4a thru 9b ...
Baccharis pilularis
Beaucarnea recurvata
Blue grama
Bouteloua dactyloides ...
Can sow as late as November or December in irrigated garden.
Grow best in association with its community of spring wildflowers, including baby blue-eyes, California gold poppy, Lupines, orange globe mallow, desert bluebells, and sideoats grama.
 See also: Bluestem, Pink, Sunflower, Lavender, Beech
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