Grasses - Buffalograss
Buffalograss - Ruchloe dactyloides
NPS Photo by Jim Pisarowicz
Buffalograss is a very drought resistant grass and is a dominant short-grass of the western Plains. The Lakota name translates as "grass that sticks to people's clothes."
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Did You Know?
Lewis and Clark, while on their journey up the Missouri River in 1804, noted that this "wild dog of the prairie...appears here in infinite numbers." More...