Bouteloua gracilis
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Bouteloua gracilis, the blue grama, is a long-lived, warm-season (C4) perennial grass, native to North America.[2][4][5]
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Blue grama | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Genus: | Bouteloua |
Species: | B. gracilis |
Binomial name | |
Bouteloua gracilis | |
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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.
Blue grama accounts for most of the net primary productivity in the shortgrass prairie of the central and southern Great Plains. It is a green or greyish, low-growing, drought-tolerant grass with limited maintenance.[6]