Bunchgrass

Word BUNCHGRASS
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Definitions and meanings of "Bunchgrass"

What do we mean by bunchgrass?

Any of various grasses of the family Poaceae that grow in clumps rather than forming a sod or mat.

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The word "bunchgrass" in example sentences

The shaggy whiskers, almost bare in places, and in others massing into bunchgrass-like clumps, were plentifully splashed with gray. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lands in the Columbia River Basin with more than 10 in (260 mm) of rainfall per year have an open cover of bunchgrass, and are excellent for raising wheat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The predominant forest cover is ponderosa pine with a shrub or bunchgrass understory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These ecosystems include the páramo, a dense alpine vegetation growing on a thick mat of sponge-like, highly absorbent mosses and grasses in the cold, humid reaches of the northern Andes, and the drier puna, characterized by alpine bunchgrass species surrounded by herbs, grasses, sedges, lichens, mosses and ferns in the cold but dry southern Tropical Andes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sagebrush and bunchgrass associations dominate plant assemblages outside of heavily farmed or grazed areas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A typical landscape is treeless vegetation dominated by bunchgrass and cushion plants which occur with desert like shrub, sedges, and many, with an underlying mat of lichens and moss. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Gran Sabana grasslands can be divided into two types: on poor sandy soils extensive bunchgrass savannas are dominated by Trachypogon plumosus and Axonopus pruinosus; on patches of damp richer soils, bush savannas of Stegolepis ptaritepuiensis, S. guianensis and Brocchinia steyermarkii occur. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Native vegetation consists of bunchgrass and sagebrush. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Approximately 30 percent of the ecoregion is supports relatively intact habitat, with the caveat that virtually all bunchgrass elements have been replaced by introduced annual grasses and fire suppression, grazing, and loss of riparian and aquatic habitats are a major problem everywhere. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Grass meadows are widespread at higher elevations of the Turkestan, Zaravshan, and Gissar ranges; fescue (Festuca alaica) is a dominant bunchgrass species here. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Commonly known as 'bunchgrass prairie', the fescue grasslands ecoregion is typified by the festuca/danthonia grass association (Festuca scabrella and Danthonia parryi). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Open meadows are dotted with an assortment of rock, bunchgrass, herbs, moss, and lichens. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Virtually all native bunchgrass communities have been replaced by annual grassland understories in woodland areas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Many of the valley bottoms, including bunchgrass and bunchgrass/sagebrush, are under intensive pressure from agriculture and urban development. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Junction Sheep Range Provincial Park - central British Columbia - bighorn sheep range, northernmost bunchgrass ranges (including the northern distribution of the Trirhabda beetle). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Between 1,600 m and 900 m there is discontinuous larch forested steppe with meadows and large bunchgrass grading to small bunchgrass steppe and to desert. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The vegetation is characterized by a diverse bunchgrass and shrub community that varies according to soil depth, texture, and elevation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Potential natural vegetation is mostly sagebrush and bunchgrass. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A mantle of windblown sand, sandy outwash, and dunes supports a potential natural vegetation of sand prairie bunchgrass. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Natural vegetation is mostly sagebrush and bunchgrass but low terraces have salt tolerant plants. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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