Several varieties of grass are called dropseed, but only stangury is drop-piss. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference
Trying to get that look out front beneath a weeping birch by using prairie dropseed, which is actually hardy here. From Wordnik.com. [Fallish « Fairegarden] Reference
The dropseed has proven elusive to find here, but the search is still on. From Wordnik.com. [The Lawn Experiment-Open To Suggestions « Fairegarden] Reference
Saltbush species, alkali sacaton, sand dropseed, and mixed grama grasses occur. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
Some western wheatgrass, vine-mesquite, areas of blue grama and sand dropseed occur. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
Sand sheet plants include rabbitbrush, sand dropseed, spiny hopsage, sand verbena, and prairie sunflower. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)] Reference
The sandsage association includes grasses such as big sandreed, little bluestem, sand dropseed, and sand bluestem. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
He pointed out different kinds of grasses: wheatgrass and little bluestem, June grass and dropseed, needlegrass and side-oats grama. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
In mixed-grass steppe, additional species include green needlegrass, sand dropseed, slender wheatgrass, galleta, and purple three-awn. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains Steppe Province (Bailey)] Reference
Most of these are rare in Pennsylvania and some are threatened, including the prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) (Wiegman, 1985, p. 57). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
While sand sagebrush and prairie grasses such as sand dropseed, sand bluestem, and big sandreed may create a continuous plant cover in portions of Ecoregion 25j, the shrub and forb cover may be sparse in dune areas. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
Pitch pine (Pinus rigida) is a co-dominant in serpentine barren woodlands and an important component of bluestem-dropseed savannas; it is found at seven serpentine barren sites in Chester, Delaware, and Lancaster counties. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
Natural vegetation is primarily sandsage prairie with sand reed grass, blue grama, sand dropseed, needlegrass, and sand sagebrush, and is similar to the Rolling Sand Plains (25b) ecoregion found in the neighboring High Plains (25). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)] Reference
In overgrazed areas, decreases in little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), needleandthread (Stipa comata), and Andropogon hallii, and increases in hairy grama (Bouteloua hirsuta), Calamovilfa longifolia, and dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus) are apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands] Reference
(Oryzopsis hymenoides), purslane (Portulaca), sand dropseed. From Wordnik.com. [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference
Sacaton (Sporobolus sp.) — The sacaton grasses, also known as bunch grass, dropseed, etc., grow over much of the Chaco area. From Wordnik.com. [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference
On a really rich site we might find Sporobolus heterolepis, prairie dropseed grass -- a ten -- a plant that can survive only on the richest, least disturbed remnants of native prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Allison Krueger, 30, the landscape designer for the international refuge, supervised the project that included the planting of such native species as black - and brown-eyed Susans, pale coneflowers, switchgrass and prairie dropseed. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
Maintenance ™ using prairie-style "buddy plants," such as alliums, catmint, boltonia, coreopsis, goldenrod, asters and grasses such as switchgrass - 'Northwind' switchgrass was developed at his Northwind Perennial Farm - moor grass, autumn moor grass and prairie dropseed. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldTimesOnline.com] Reference
Behind the barns are a series of wetland and rain gardens that use the water harvested from the roofs of the barns, and the entire site is enclosed in a new landscape of native Kentucky trees such as cedars and walnuts, under-planted with prairie dropseed grass and other natives. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Once this mix of more than 100 grasses big bluestem and Indiangrass, wild rye, prairie brome and dropseed, as well as flowers with blooms the size of volleyballs supported as many as 60 million American bison, tens of millions of elk, millions of deer and hundreds of millions of prairie chicken and quail, as well as the now extinct Carolina parakeets and passenger pigeons. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
Once this mix of more than 100 grasses - big bluestem and Indiangrass, wild rye, prairie brome and dropseed, as well as flowers with blooms the size of volleyballs - supported as many as 60 million American bison, tens of millions of elk, millions of deer and hundreds of millions of prairie chicken and quail, as well as the now extinct Carolina parakeets and passenger pigeons. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
Also in the northeast, over loamy Alfisols, were grass communities dominated by Silveanus dropseed, Mead’s sedge, bluestems, and long-spike tridens. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
May we add prairie dropseed?. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves Of Grass(es)* « Fairegarden] Reference
Prairie dropseed is a great grass too. From Wordnik.com. [Fallish « Fairegarden] Reference
The shortgrass prairie contains buffalograss, blue grama, western wheatgrass, galleta, alkali sacaton, sand dropseed, sideoats grama, and yucca. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)] Reference
Native vegetation includes black grama, sand dropseed, mesa dropseed, blue grama, galleta, sand sage, alkali sacaton, threeawns, and scattered yucca. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
The natural vegetation of these plains included blue grama, galleta, sand dropseed, threeawns, ring muhly, broom snakeweed, cacti, yucca, and cholla. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
The present vegetation is mostly sideoats grama, black grama, cane beardgrass, plains lovegrass, blue grama, hairy grama, sand dropseed, vine mesquite, curly mesquite, false mesquite, Mormon-tea, mimosa, yucca, ocotillo, cacti, and agave. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
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