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Sorghastrum nutans, known as Indiangrass, [2] [3] is a North American prairie grass found in the United States and Canada, especially in the Great Plains and tallgrass prairies. It is sometimes called Indian grass [ 4 ] , yellow Indian-grass , [ 2 ] or wood grass .
Tridens flavus, known as purpletop, purpletop tridens, tall redtop, greasy grass, and grease grass, [1] [2] [3] is a large, robust perennial bunchgrass. The seeds are purple, giving the grass its common name. The seeds are also oily, leading to its other common name, "grease grass". It reproduces by seed and tillers.
It is a larval host plant for the Northern Pearly-Eye, and its seeds are food for birds and mammals. It is also eaten by the caterpillars of the pepper and salt skipper, Bell's roadside skipper, [16] and bronzed roadside skipper butterflies. Chasmanthium latifolium is a fire-adapted grass best adapted to a low frequency of fire.
Some ornamental grasses are species that can be grown from seed. Many others are cultivars , and must be propagated by vegetative propagation of an existing plant. Pampas grass ( Cortaderia selloana ) is easily recognizable, with semi-dwarf to very large selections for the landscape.
The seeds are 3–6 mm (1 ⁄ 8 – 1 ⁄ 4 in) long and up to 1.5 mm (1 ⁄ 16 in) wide, and are developed from a single-flowered spikelet. Both glumes are present and well developed. When ripe, the seeds sometimes take on a pink or dull-purple tinge, and turn golden brown with the foliage of the plant in the fall.
Cyperus grayoides is a species of sedge known as Illinois flatsedge and Mohlenbrock's umbrella sedge. It is endemic to the United States, where its distribution extends from Illinois through Missouri and Arkansas to Texas and Louisiana .
Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well.
The seeds of E. angustifolium are adapted to wind-dispersal. Eriophorum angustifolium is a hardy, herbaceous, rhizomatous, perennial plant, [14] meaning that it is resilient to cold and freezing climatic conditions, dies back at the end of its growing season, has creeping rootstalks, and lives for