iBuffalograss
turf-type buffalograss
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Subkingdom: Tracheobionta Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Lilopsdia Subclass: Commelinidae Order: Cyperales Family: Poaceae Genus: Buchloe Species: dactyloides

Buffalo grass Buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides) is found on the North American prairies, a valuable fodder. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

Buffalo grass is distributed from central Montana east to Minnesota and south to eastern coastal Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, eastern Arizona, and northern Mexico. It is incidental in northern Idaho and Virginia. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Area  Ranked 12th  - Total 87,014 sq mi (225,365 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 8. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Official language(s) None See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq mi (695,622 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²)  - Width 342 miles (550 km)  - Length 370 miles (595 km)  - % water 0. ... It has been suggested that Arizona Governors Mansion be merged into this article or section. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Rest of Virginia be merged into this article or section. ...

Buffalo grass is codominant with Blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) over most of the shortgrass prairie. Binomial name Bouteloua gracilis Steud. ...

Buffalo grass is a warm-season, native perennial shortgrass. It is drought-, heat-, and cold-resistant. Foliage is usually 2 to 5 inches (5-13 cm) high, though in the southern Great Plains foliage may reach 12 inches (30 cm). Buffalo grass is usually dioecious. Plants are occasionally monoecious, sometimes with perfect flowers. Flowerstalks are 4 to 8 inches (10-20 cm) tall. The male inflorescense is a panicle; the female inflorescense consists of short spikelets borne in burlike clusters, usually with two to four spikelets per bur. A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... The Great Plains is the broad expanse of prairie which lies east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. ... In biology, Dioecious is an adjective which indicates the exisistence of separate sexes in a species of organisms. ... Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. ...

Buffalo grass sends out numerous, branching stolons; occasionally it also produces rhizomes. Roots are also numerous and thoroughly occupy the soil. The numerous stolons and roots form a dense sod. Buffalo grass roots are finer than those of most plains grasses, being less than 1 mm in diameter. A stolon is an aerial shoot from a plant with the ability to produce adventitious roots and new offshoots of the same plant. ... In botany, a rhizome is a horizontal, usually underground stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. ...

References

• Buchloe dactyloides at U.S. Dept of Agriculture
• Turf-Type Buchloe dactyloides at Native Turf Group (non-profit)

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