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BLUESTEMS - NativeGrasses
| Blue stem grasses are one of the main group of
native grasses of Great Plains and extended over more of the mid west than they do today. The blue grasses are large bunching grasses which provided the huge forage supply
for the great herds of buffalo, deer, elk, and other animals that made up the populations
of the early continent of North America. |
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Over the decades
climate changes shifted the natural growing range and the
grasses adapted by extending or limiting their area of growth .
These grasses grew anywhere from one foot in height to six or
more.
It truly must have looked like a large sea of grass as it was called by the early
populations moving onto the vast expansions of land. When the Europeans moved into the
region and started farming and clearing huge tracts of acreage these grasses were replaced
with other crops.
Many of grasses were used by
the early settlers for housing and feeding the large number of livestock they brought with
them. The grasses were in large part a natural erosion barrier. Their thick and high
growth did not allow the extreme heat and wind to get to the ground. During the Great
Depression with no rain in sight and the winds that always swept the plains now started
and the once grass covered land become the Dustbowl of the west. Erosion of most of the
plains area destroyed the larger tracts of native soil where these native grasses once
grew.
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- Bluestem Varieties |
Big bluestem: is the tallest of the grasses and grows
in the loamiest soils .
Sand blue stem: developed in the sandier soils and grows a little
shorter and is a relative of the big blue stems.
Little blue stem: grows about 3 foot tall and is the
shortest of these three varieties. This grass is adapted to drier and grows in most of the
eastern
Bluestem grasses are warm
season, native, perennial grasses that come in several varieties and are used for forage.
Bluestem grasses are found in most of the US and were most prevalent
in the mid western
prairies when the large herds of buffalo and other large grazers covered the land.
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- Big Bluestems |
Big Bluestems are slow growing
bunching grasses that have good drought tolerance, and a high palatability
to animals, and
grow in moderately well draining, loamy soils of low to medium fertility This grass can
grow up to six feet and one of the primary grasses of the Great Plains.
Bluestems are tall growing and produce abundant blades of
high nutritive value. Big bluestem can be grown in pure stands or in mixtures of other
grasses and provides excellent forage and hay crops.
Usually planted at the rate of 10-12 pounds of pure live seed from April 15- may 30
soil pH 5.4 6.2
| NativeGrasses.com - Sand Bluestem |
Sand bluestem is a variety that
developed naturally in the sandier soils of the prairie regions. This bluestem is a native,
perennial, warm season grass and is genetically linked to the big bluestem and can be
cross bred with the big bluestem to produce strains that are more adaptive and more
productive for forage purposes.
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