Blue Grama

You decide to stay where you are and look around. There is so much to see, and there are grasses you are not familiar with right here in front of you!

You bend down to take a closer look at the scrubby grass in front of you and see long limbs covered in seeds extending off the end of it. This grass is called blue grama, and is found all over the middle U.S. It is ideal for grazing, so it is often planted in ranges in the southwest. When it gets hotter in late summer, the seeded ends will darken and fall, spreading to grow more blue garma. "Blue grama accounts for most of the net primary productivity in the shortgrass prairie of the central and southern Great Plains," and it is very hardy and resistant to drought.