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Grass dancers at the 2007 National Pow Wow. The grass dance or Omaha dance is a style of modern Native American men's pow wow dancing originating in the warrior societies on the Northern Great Plains. [1] Unlike most forms of pow wow dancing, the grass dance regalia generally has no feathers besides the occasional roach feather. The regalia ...
Arundinaria is a genus of bamboo in the grass family the members of which are referred to generally as cane. [1] [2] Arundinaria is the only bamboo native to North America, with a native range from Maryland south to Florida and west to the southern Ohio Valley and Texas.
Devil's club, traditionally used by Native Americans to treat adult-onset diabetes and a variety of tumors. In vitro studies showed that extracts of devil's club inhibit tuberculosis microbes. [40] The plant is used medicinally and ceremonially by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska, who refer to it as "Tlingit aspirin". A piece of devil's ...
Flowering big bluestem, a characteristic tallgrass prairie plant. The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America.Historically, natural and anthropogenic fire, as well as grazing by large mammals (primarily bison) provided periodic disturbances to these ecosystems, limiting the encroachment of trees, recycling soil nutrients, and facilitating seed dispersal and germination.
Native grasses of the Great Plains region (32 P) H. Grasses of Haiti (2 P) M. Grasses of Mexico (1 C, 133 P) U. ... Chloris (plant) Chloris cubensis; Coelorachis ...
In its native range, Poa pratensis forms a valuable pasture plant, characteristic of well-drained, fertile soil. It is also used for making lawns in parks and gardens and has established itself as a common invasive weed across cool moist temperate climates like the Pacific Northwest and the Northeastern United States .
Hesperostipa spartea is native to the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies of North America. [2] It is also found in grasslands of the Rocky Mountains in Western Canada and the Western United States. [2] This grass is common and is a dominant grass in various prairie and grassland ecosystems in the Great Plains.
The native range of the grass extends north into Shasta County, California, and south into New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. [1] [2] There it inhabits a wide range of ecotypes including grassland, riparian, chaparral, mixed conifer, and oak woodland communities. Deergrass can grow in areas with periodic flooding, but cannot tolerate standing water ...