Native vegetation consists of bunchgrass and sagebrush. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)] Reference
Potential natural vegetation is mostly sagebrush and bunchgrass. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)] Reference
The predominant forest cover is ponderosa pine with a shrub or bunchgrass understory. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)] Reference
Open meadows are dotted with an assortment of rock, bunchgrass, herbs, moss, and lichens. From Wordnik.com. [Central Andean puna] Reference
Natural vegetation is mostly sagebrush and bunchgrass but low terraces have salt tolerant plants. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)] Reference
It had rained all day and now, in the stiffening gloom, tufts of bunchgrass showed up like bleached hair. From Wordnik.com. ['Fine Just the Way It Is'] Reference
Sagebrush and bunchgrass associations dominate plant assemblages outside of heavily farmed or grazed areas. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)] Reference
Virtually all native bunchgrass communities have been replaced by annual grassland understories in woodland areas. From Wordnik.com. [California interior chaparral and woodlands] Reference
Old dead ribbons of taupe bunchgrass ringed it, and ice scalloped all around its verge like a camera iris closing. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
A mantle of windblown sand, sandy outwash, and dunes supports a potential natural vegetation of sand prairie bunchgrass. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Kansas and Nebraska (EPA)] Reference
Competition among individuals of the bunchgrass Hilaria rigida (big galleta grass) results in an even spatial dispersion of individuals. From Wordnik.com. [Intraspecific competition] Reference
The vegetation is characterized by a diverse bunchgrass and shrub community that varies according to soil depth, texture, and elevation. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)] Reference
Many of the valley bottoms, including bunchgrass and bunchgrass/sagebrush, are under intensive pressure from agriculture and urban development. From Wordnik.com. [Okanagan dry forests] Reference
Even here life kept a hold, a thin growth of stuff like saltbush, snake-weed, and bunchgrass, gray spatters of lichen, now and then a tiny flower. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Intermountain Semidesert Province (Bailey)] Reference
Grass meadows are widespread at higher elevations of the Turkestan, Zaravshan, and Gissar ranges; fescue (Festuca alaica) is a dominant bunchgrass species here. From Wordnik.com. [Gissaro-Alai open woodlands] Reference
Introduced annual grasses dominate grassland and savanna communities, intensive management is required for possible restoration of the original bunchgrass prairies. From Wordnik.com. [California Central Valley grasslands] Reference
Commonly known as 'bunchgrass prairie', the fescue grasslands ecoregion is typified by the festuca/danthonia grass association (Festuca scabrella and Danthonia parryi). From Wordnik.com. [Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada] Reference
I ripped and tore with ferocious concentration; dandelions, fireweed, rhododendron sprouts, bunchgrass, muhly, smartweed, and the creeping mallow known locally as -cheese. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Clark's spiny (Sceloporus clarki), Yarrow's spiny (S. jarrovi), bunchgrass (S. scalaris), and striped plateau (S. virgatus) are just a few of the lizards in this ecoregion. From Wordnik.com. [Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests] Reference
Some of the hardiest plants include alpine fescue, a bunchgrass. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
Wild roses were flaming in the tufts of bunchgrass along the fence. From Wordnik.com. [O Pioneers!] Reference
From behind the screen door I watch the cat in the bunchgrass stalking at dusk. From Wordnik.com. [APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed] Reference
AFTER TWO DAYS OF GOOD, SOAKING RAIN IN early May, the bunchgrass greened some. From Wordnik.com. [Come Again No More] Reference
Wildflowers and bunchgrass hug the shore, and cattle and sheep graze in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
(Agropyron smithii), sacaton (Sporobolus), and sand bunchgrass (Oryzopsis hymenioides). From Wordnik.com. [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference
Being a bunchgrass, it does not have rhizomes or stolons, bunches can break up, creating a clone. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
He was up in the first grey of the dawn hunting for food and he found it in the form of bunchgrass. From Wordnik.com. [Alcatraz] Reference
"Waal, son, you jes 'take a run on the bunchgrass, and you'll see that you won't make no racket, nuther.". From Wordnik.com. [The Border Boys Across the Frontier] Reference
BICKLETON -- The well is plugged and soon, all the ground will be once again covered in sagebrush and bunchgrass. From Wordnik.com. [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference
The 120-square-mile area is dotted with sagebrush and bunchgrass and home to many scarce plants, animals and birds. From Wordnik.com. [OPB News] Reference
Most of the "action" of his Hualapai history takes place not on the sweeping bunchgrass plains or at exotic religious ceremonies, but in courtrooms and boardrooms. From Wordnik.com. [Tucson Weekly] Reference
There are fields bordered by brushy cover, hedgerows with fallen trees and brush piles, grassy areas with a diversity of forbs, and bunchgrass to provide nesting habitat. From Wordnik.com. [www.appeal-democrat.com - News :] Reference
• a strategy to restore sustainable bunchgrass to Central Oregon rangeland overrun with invasive cheatgrass and medusahead. From Wordnik.com. [Media Newswire] Reference
A horse is grazing in the bunchgrass outside it. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Blind]
Food: Seeds of amaranth (Amaranthus), sagebrush (Artemisia), goosefoot (Chenopodium), dodder (Cuscuta), cacti, sand bunchgrass. From Wordnik.com. [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference
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