Little bluestem

Little bluestem

Taxobox
name = Little Bluestem


image_width = 240px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Poales
familia = Poaceae
genus = "Schizachyrium"
species = "S. scoparium"
binomial = "Schizachyrium scoparium"

Little bluestem ("Schizachyrium scoparium") is a North American prairie grass. Little bluestem is a perennial bunchgrass, and is prominent in tallgrass prairie, along with big bluestem ("Andropogon gerardii"), indiangrass ("Sorghastrum nutans") and switchgrass ("Panicum virgatum"). It is a warm-season species, meaning it employs the C4 photosynthetic pathway.

Little Bluestem grows to a typical height of 3 feet (compare Big Bluestem). Although it has a blue tint in the spring, in fall its predominant color is more red, which color it may retain throughout winter into spring.

External links

* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/charProfile?symbol=SCSC Little Bluestem at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service]
* [http://www.lib.ksu.edu/wildflower/littlebluestem.html Little bluestem: Kansas]
* [http://www.northern.edu/natsource/GRASSES/Little1.htm Little bluestem: Natsource]


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  • little bluestem — noun A grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, native to North America. See Also: big bluestem …   Wiktionary

  • little bluestem — noun Date: circa 1898 a forage grass (Schizachyrium scoparium syn. Andropogon scoparius) of eastern and central North America …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • little bluestem — a North American forage grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, having wide often bluish blades. [1895 1900] * * * …   Universalium

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  • bluestem — /blooh stem /, n. 1. any of several prairie grasses of the genus Andropogon, having bluish leaf sheaths, now grown in the western U.S. for forage. 2. See dwarf palmetto. [1850 55, Amer.; BLUE + STEM1] * * * ▪ plant also called  beard grass   any… …   Universalium

  • bluestem — noun Any of various grasses, including little bluestem and big bluestem …   Wiktionary

  • seacoast bluestem — noun : a bluestem (Andropogon littoralis) of beaches and dunes of eastern No. America that is very similar to and often considered a variety of the little bluestem and that is locally valued as a palatable forage grass and as an arrester of wind… …   Useful english dictionary

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