THE GUADALUPE FESCUE IS AN UNLIKELY CELEBRITY in the plant world, A slim, knee-high
bunchgrass with delicate pale yellow blooms, it looks like other grasses that grow in the high peaks of the Chihuahuan Desert.
Flammability of the keystone savanna
bunchgrass, Aristida stricta.
That weapons of mass destruction sprung from an idyllic setting of sagebrush and
bunchgrass is one of the book's overarching ironies.
Elk emerge like shadow puppets seemingly out of nowhere, grazing along the
bunchgrass and wildflowers.
Investigating temporal patterns of a native bee community in a remnant North American
bunchgrass prairie using blue vane traps.
For the second edition, he adds several species of
bunchgrass that have become available in New Mexico, includes some new photographs and drawings, and updates the scientific names of some plants.
Responses of a remnant California native
bunchgrass population to grazing, burning and climatic variation.
The capacity for tiller recruitment was the most pronounced morphological distinction between perennial
bunchgrass (Schizachyrium scoparium) with contrasting histories of herbivory [19].
Morphologic and allozymic variation between long-term grazed and non-grazed populations of the
bunchgrass Schizachyrium scoparium var.
It was in 1985 that I set out to "climb" Tanzania's fabled Mt Kilimanjaro--it's really a magnificent hike through myriad ever-changing ecosystems--being what is known as an Afromontane region, Kilimanjaro boasts an enormous biodiversity, including the giant groundsels in the
bunchgrass tussock grasslands, and other flora comprising some 1,200 species of vascular plants adapted to living in alpine conditions.
This tiny, earlyspring-flowering, perennial
bunchgrass from, in this instance, a semi-desert situation is one of several nominal morphologically intergrading and geographically overlapping forms or ecotypes of P.
In a related experiment, Lucero and her colleagues filled tubes fashioned out of PVC pipes with hydrated gels, buried them alongside the roots of a native
bunchgrass, and positioned the pipes so that moisture would be available to the grass roots.