153 pp.Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Flora of the Great Plains. 1980. A., and J. L. Engel. Download our availability and order form for pricing, what's in stock, and future availability. 1986. This … 1986.
Bouteloua dactyloides Buffalograss. 635 pp.Weaver, J. E. 1968. Ecological Land Classification Program, Minnesota County Biological Survey, and Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program. Although Buchloe dactyloides is common throughout large areas of the Great Plains, it is very rare in Minnesota where it has been listed as a special concern species since 1984. Second Edition. Bouteloua dactyloides, commonly known as buffalograss or buffalo grass, is a North American prairie grass native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Wholesale only. © 2020 Minnesota DNR | Equal opportunity employer |
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Previous scientific name(s): Bouteloua dactyloides, Bulbilis dactyloides, Sesleria dactyloides . Foliage turns dormant and straw-colored mid-fall through mid-spring and with heavy drought. It is a fine-textured grass … 362 pp.Quinn, J. A Prairie Moon • September 19 Since this grass does not need to overwinter to germinate (Germ Code = A), and it is a warm-season grass (grows actively when soil temps are warm), we would recommend sowing it late-spring or early-summer. Bouteloua dactyloides is a warm-season grass that’s native to Manitoba and Saskatchewan, south through the Central Plains states of the U.S. and down into Mexico. Buffalo Grass has low fertility and water requirements, and tolerates heat, drought, and alkaline soils. While not widely used in the Southeast, it has performed well for us in central NC. Buffalograss has excellent drought tolerance and in fact grows best in … Bouteloua dactyloides . Here it is restricted to rock outcrops in the southwest part of the state and almost exclusively associated with Sioux quartzite bedrock. It is drought and cold tolerant, and has little disease or pest problems. It outgrows a liner quickly, so we grow this one on request. Manual of the grasses of the United States (2 volumes).
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Division of Ecological Resources, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, St. Paul. It’s a dominant grass in shortgrass prairie and often forms the understory in taller prairies. 276 pp. It is a shortgrass found mainly on the High Plains and is co-dominant with blue grama (B. gracilis) over most of the shortgrass prairie. Average lead time is 10 weeks. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska. Ready to order, have a question, or need info?
Buffalograss is a “true” native of the prairies of the western US.
It is excellent for the difficult to grow regions found in the lower elevations of the desert Southwest of Arizona and Southern and coastal California. A fifty-year study in the Midwest. Dover Publications, Inc., New York, New York. Bouteloua dactyloides is one of the few North American species that is appropriate as a turf grass. Basis for Listing. Buchloe dactyloides, known as buffalo grass, is a dioecious, drought-tolerant, heat-resistant, fine-textured, warm season perennial grass that is native primarily to the Great Plains within the area from Minnesota to Montana south to Louisiana and Arizona.It is one of the dominant grasses of the shortgrass prairie. Bouteloua dactyloides. 2005. Wholesale customers only, please.© Copyright 2016, Hoffman Nursery, Inc. All rights reserved.© Copyright 2016, Hoffman Nursery, Inc. All rights reserved.