blue grama
noun
: a low-growing perennial grama (Bouteloua gracilis) having slender curly leaves that is an important forage grass especially in the Great Plains
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Replace your lawn with buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis), or purple three-awn grass (Aristida purpurea).
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Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
The window to fertilize warm-season grasses (Buffalo, blue grama and Bermuda) is now through early August.
—Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 11 June 2019
Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
The window to fertilize warm-season grasses (Buffalo, blue grama and Bermuda) is now through early August.
—Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 11 June 2019
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First Known Use
1858, in the meaning defined above
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