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Title
Buffalo Grass
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
Buffalo grass, Buchloe dactyloides, is a perennial grass native to the Great Plains from Montana to Mexico. It is one of the grasses that supported the great herds of buffalo that roamed the Great Plains. Buffalo grass also provided the sod from which early settlers built their houses.
Buffalo grass is our only truly native turf grass in North America. Its tolerance to prolonged droughts and to extreme temperatures together with its seed producing characteristics enables this grass to survive extreme environmental conditions. Overgrazing and, in the case of turf, over use or excessive traffic are the pressures that lead to the deterioration of a stand of this grass.
Buffalo grass spreads by surface runners, or stolons, and seed. It forms a fine textured, relatively thin turf with a soft blue-green color. It does not possess underground stems, or rhizomes. Buffalo grass is also destroyed quite readily by cultivation making it easily removed from flower beds and gardens.
Buffalo grass is not adapted to shaded sites or to sites that receive heavy traffic. Under intensive management Bermuda grass and other more aggressive grasses tend to replace Buffalo grass in the lawn.
Roadsides, school grounds, parks, open lawn areas, golf course roughs and cemeteries are good sites for Buffalo grass in central, west and north Texas. It is the ideal grass for those wanting a "native" landscape.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the Fine Art America watermark.
Image made on the Colorado prairie near Bent's Fort and copyright 2020 Jon Burch Photography
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February 15th, 2020
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