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bunchgrass::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bunch grass |
| Type of | grass |
Examples of bunchgrass
bunchgrass
One of the best examples of bunchgrass prairie remaining in California is protected here.
From the pe.com
These include woodlands, bunchgrass prairies, chaparrals and wetlands.
From the pe.com
Stopping to touch a clump of dead bunchgrass, he looks up at us.
From the time.com
It had rained all day and now, in the stiffening gloom, tufts of bunchgrass showed up like bleached hair.
From the denverpost.com
Old dead ribbons of taupe bunchgrass ringed it, and ice scalloped all around its verge like a camera iris closing.
From the guardian.co.uk
On these sites, native bunchgrass cover was almost twice as dense as bunchgrass cover on the ungrazed sites.
From the sciencedaily.com
He designed regiments of single species in precise rows, including southern wood ferns, Turk's cap shrubs and Lindheimer's muhly, a bunchgrass.
From the thestate.com
The three-week vigil would last until the sheep left public grazing land, where they'd spent the summer fattening up on native bunchgrass.
From the orlandosentinel.com
However endemics include the giant groundsels in the bunchgrass tussock grasslands, and other flora adapted to living in alpine plant conditions.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States
- Tussock grasses or bunch grasses in North America, are found as native plants in natural ecosystems, as forage in pastures, and as ornamental grasses in gardens.
- The general name for perennial grass species that tend to grow in discrete tufts or clumps (i.e., bunches) rather than in sod-like carpets. Bunchgrasses tend to have deep roots and can get moisture from the soil where shallow-rooted sod-like grasses would dry out.
- Nbsp     Grass that grows as distinct plants that get larger over time. Also called clump-forming grass. Contrast with spreading grass (also called sod-forming grass), which expands using running roots that create new plants from existing ones.
- Any grass that tends to grow in distinct, separated clumps
- A grass that grows in clumps or bunches and has no prominent rhizomes or stolons in contrast to grass that forms a mat or turf.
- Grass growing in a bunch or tussock.
