#prairie dropseed

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As illustrated in Figure 19.36, root system architecture varies widely among species, even those living in the same habitat.

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

[aisling-saoirse]

Field at Dusk, Pennsylvania - September 14th 2024

[cafffine]

work has not been as fulfilling as I wanted it to be but I did just submit my first landscaping plan for a pollinator garden at my employers city hall so!!! very cool!!!

[tajedler]

Front Yard Natural Stone Pavers Detroit Design ideas for a small asian partial sun front yard stone water fountain landscape in summer.

[travelella]

Plains Bison in Custer, South Dakota, USA

Stephanie LeBlanc

The Plains bison is one of two subspecies/ecotypes of the American bison, the other being the wood bison.

Status: Near Threatened

Population: 45,000

Scientific Name: Bison bison bison

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Family: Bovidae

Subfmaily: Bovinae

Tribe: Bovini

Genus: Bison

Weight: 701 to 2,000 pounds

Length: 7-12 ft.

Habitat: Grassland

Range: Bison once roamed from Florida to Washington, Canada, and Mexico - The entire U.S.

Predators: Wolves are the primary predator of bison across the continent. Local knowledge also indicates that bears play a role in predation.

Diet: Bison are considered generalist foragers, meaning they eat a wide array of herbaceous grasses and sedges commonly found in mixed-grassed prairies. These types of plants include species such as Blue gramma, sand dropseed, and little bluestem.

Lifespan: The average lifespan for a bison is 10–20 years, but some live to be older. Cows begin breeding at the age of two and only have one baby at a time. For males, the prime breeding age is six to 10 years.

Importance: Bison graze the grasses at different heights, providing nesting grounds for birds. They also roll around and pack down the soil in depressions in the ground known as wallows. Their wallows fill with rainwater and offer breeding pools for amphibians and sources of drinking water for wildlife across the landscape.

[wildlifetracker]

Surveying a high quality mesic blacksoil prairie

1. Blue vervain

2. Silvery scurfpea

3. Prairie phlox

4. Prairie dropseed

5. Rough blazing star

6. Silver wormwood

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

My Garden Flowers Part 5

All photos mine. The blue flax is edited for colour since the camera didn't catch it and washed it out. The curlytop smartweed is edited for contrast and the scarlet bee balm is edited for colour since that phone camera sucked.

In order of appearance:

121. Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticillata) Flowering for the first time this year! I hope she gets pollinated.

122. Blue Flax (Linum lewisii) Finally got this thing to flower. She doesn't live very long and my first two attempts grew just fine but didn't flower and therefore didn't reseed. Here's hoping this one does.

123. Lakeside Daisy (Tetraneuris herbacea) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

124. Fringed Sagebrush (Artemisia frigida) Took me several tries, including the wrong species sent, before I got one to take off but she survived the winter and is doing nicely this summer!

125. Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) Sadly she didn't make it through the winter and I'll have to try another area, but she certainly looked nice while she was here.

126. Gray-Headed Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata) Flowering for the first time this year! Also my first successful attempt as BOTH my previous plants were cut where I had them. Two in a fucking row. She doesn't even look that weedy. I don't know what the fuck.

127. Narrow-Leaved Vervain (Verbena simplex) Sadly she didn't survive the winter. Trying her in another place and she seems to like it so far.

128. Pink Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa) Well, she certainly understood the assignment to prettify that area, though I had no idea she'd spread so much. My other Oenothera species are much more well-behaved. lol

129. Streamside Fleabane (Erigeron glabellus pubescens) Lovely little thing in the small spot I have her in. An ideal small space plant.

130. Green Comet (Asclepias viridiflora) Now she flowered last year but didn't make pods in spite of all the ants who came to visit. Hoping she'll make pods this year!

131. Spike Goldenrod (Solidago simplex) She looked nice here but didn't survive the winter. I'm trying one in another spot.

132. Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) Not pictured as I haven't got any pictures yet.

133. Blue Leadplant (Amorpha canescens) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

134. Clammy Groundcherry (Physalis heterophylla) She also spread much more than I expected, but I don't mind. Potentially lots of ground cherries!

135. White Meadowsweet (Spiraea alba) A bit leggy as a bush, though that might be due to where I have her, but the flowers are yet again white and lacy and loved by pollinators.

136. Curlytop Smartweed (Persicaria lapathifolia) I didn't plant that, and wish I had gotten a better photo of her because she sadly never reseeded until this year, and her daughter is not quite as impressive as she was.

137. Slender Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium) She is no longer with us as of this year and I'm not sure why. I've planted fireweed in that spot now and we'll see how she does. Maybe I'll plant slender mountain mint in the back instead.

138. Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

139 Michigan Lily (Lilium michiganense) Every year I end up with more! Springtime flower only and then she fruits.

140. Canada Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) one of the relatively safe members of the buttercup family. You can pop a flower or two into your mouth for a refreshing sweet snack.

141. Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) Probably the most showy of her genus. Avens flowers tend to be small white or yellow on leggy stalks, but prairie smoke has red parts around white flowers that eventually become fluffy seedheads, hence the name. Plus the leaves turn red in the fall so very nice all around.

142. Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea) She can get leggy in the summer, but the bright yellow flowerheads are nice in spring.

143. Canada Wild Rye (Elymus canadensis) She didn't make the winter. Again I think it was too dry. She may have reseeded, however, or else I've let a clump of crabgrass stay for far too long.

144. Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea purpurea) She's another one I had to get from a Manitoba company because no one in Ontario was selling this species (some do now though). She is thriving!

145. Wild Mint (Mentha arvensis) The area I have her in is fairly dry and blocked by sidewalk. She does occasionally get in the cracks but is otherwise well-behaved in her enclosure. The same cannot be said for the one I gave to my friend for her landlady's plant war. Apparently she's taken over the neighbourhood. Well done, native mint.

146. Scarlet Beebalm (Monarda didyma) She lived well for one year in that area and then never again. I'm trying her in a different spot where she hasn't flowered yet but seems to like it.

147. Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) That's a cultivar. I did eventually manage to get the wild type, but don't have a picture yet.

148. Canada Garlic (Allium canadense) In my humble opinion these are much tastier than ramps. They usually don't make flowers, opting to make bulbs instead, but this was a nice exception. They're springtime only, though.

149. Annual Fleabane (Erigeron annuus) I rescued her from a fallow area. Sadly she didn't reseed but I don't feel bad because that area is completely under development now and her offspring wouldn't have made it anyway. I gave her a chance.

150. Northern Bedstraw (Galium boreale) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

[emmajeanisnotmylover]

hieros gamos.

your touch, a charm your kiss, a trance green man that you are abundant, overflowing sprouting grasses, blooming, leaning in your tiger's eyes hold me close while you and I merge deeply your sensitive skin inside me like silk magnetized and ravenous in awe and in love, and even more than that gently spreading heart salves on unseen wounds you touch your tongue upon my skin (a sacrament like none before it) and split me open with such care I am opened to gaia I am opened to lilith I am opened up to sky and down to earth to cosmos and the underworlds to volcanoes and to rains to winds and oceans I am opened to artemis, persephone, and parvati I am between the worlds and rooted in you rooting through you over and around your stamen down through your blood, your bones, your stones your water, your pollen, your nature and down into the earth herself I am rooted through you and elevated into the heavens I am the tree of life, of this realm and every next one my throat is open, that holy portal from voice to vulva I crest and break over you, over and again through you, and around you and the most primal holy light shoots from you, through me from tip to top up through sibling trees and out to stars down through soil and bedrock engulfing ancestors plunging straight to the core of the earth. in the service of aphrodite through soft skins on soft skins scar tissue is made and remade new again alchemy pouring through our pores we exchange molecules and magicks through our fields, our fluids, saliva, and breath every part of me ever misused or abused ignored or unseen passed over for surface pleasures and cheap thrills as you see me, worship me, pleasure me whole and drape me in the finest of green gowns ever known to the gods woven of bluebonnets and grama grasses firewheels and prairie dropseed you tuck a thistle behind my ear and flowercrown my stigma with sweet reverence and love you hold me up to gaia, selena, and great mother - in your arms, I am safe. in your heart, I am seen. together, we create new worlds and sow new dreams.

[bigoldeels]

3/11 update :-)

meadow blazing star

MO evening primrose

smooth hydrangea

hearts-a-bustin

joe-pye weed

showy sunflower

blue sage

obedient plant

pokeweed

dutchman's pipevine

southern blue flag

prairie dropseed

native seedlings started over winter: prairie sage, IL bundleflower, indiangrass, cup plant, yellow coneflower

veggie seedlings started this spring: snap peas, shelling peas, radishes, rat's tail radishes, cilantro, various mustard greens and brassicas, lettuce

plants that r awake in my garden as of now (keeping track for myself as spring goes on) :-)

anise hyssop

hairy mountain mint

purple coneflower

jacob's ladder

missouri gooseberry

swamp rose

coral honeysuckle

daisy fleabane

ohio spiderwort

bee balm

thyme

oregano

lemon balm

columbine

strawberries

goldenrod, aster, missouri coneflower, and foxglove beardtongue (retained green basal foliage thru the winter)

daffodils and hyacinths (planted by the previous tenant)

[xtruss]

Ornamental Grasses You Should Get to Know

Ornamental grass is beautiful, boisterous and bountiful. They're also easy to grow and pretty much deer- and drought-tolerant. Here are 10 you might want to try in your own yard.

— Luke MillerLuke Miller

Fountain Ornamental Grass

Fountain Ornamental Grass (Pennisetum Spp.) gets its name from the graceful, fountainlike foliage. The shape alone is enough reason to grow this beautiful grass. But then it's decorated by fuzzy flower plumes in late summer. In fall, the foliage turns buff, making it a nice contrast against darker plants like the kale in this photo. This is 'Hamlen' dwarf fountain grass, which reaches just 2-3 feet tall.

Prairie Dropseed

Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus Heterolepis) is a handsome prairie ornamental grass with emerald green, hairlike foliage, and an arching shape. The foliage grows just 15-18 inches tall, with flower spikes reaching twice that height in late summer. Being tolerant of poor, dry soils, prairie dropseed is well suited for erosion control on slopes. It can also be used to replace lawn grass, needing less watering, fertilizing and mowing.

Karl Foerster Feather Reed Ornamental Grass

Karl Foerster's Feather Reed Ornamental Grass (Calamagrostis x Acutiflora 'Karl Foerster') has a rigid, upright shape. This grass punctuates the landscape, especially as the flower spikes begin to turn a rich golden color in fall. Foliage grows 18-24 inches tall, while the stalks (which make great cut flowers) can reach double that height. Feather reed grass accepts moist or dry soils.

Flame Grass

Flame Ornamental Grass (Miscanthus 'Purpurascens') is known for its brilliant reddish orange fall foliage. Which is punctuated by creamy white plumes. The medium green summer foliage takes on reddish hues as the season progresses, eventually reaching a height of 3-4 feet.

Porcupine Grass

Porcupine Ornamental Grass (Miscanthus Sinensis 'Strictus') and its cousin zebra grass (M. sinensis 'Zebrinus') are easy to spot in the garden. The bright green blades have golden bands, so they definitely stand out. While zebra grass has a relaxed habit, it grows up to 5 feet tall. And porcupine grass is more upright and can reach 8 feet in height.

Maiden Grass

Maiden Ornamental Grass (Miscanthus Sinensis 'Morning Light') is exquisite when backlit by, well, morning light. Or afternoon light. Or when sitting in the garden on a cloudy day. The arching foliage is decorated with narrow stripes of white, and reaches 4 to 5 feet. And this grass looks great all season. In late summer, dramatic plumes rise another foot, carrying the show through fall and winter.

Sedge

Sedge (Carex Spp.) is a brightly colored, small ornamental grass for borders and containers and looks particularly good when massed. The most common varieties found at garden centers have chartreuse, variegated or even tan foliage. The unique colors of the grasslike foliage are what really make sedge a popular garden plant.

Blue Fescue

Blue Fescue (Festuca Glauca) is a great ornamental grass to grow when space is tight. It's small and tidy—just 1 foot tall—so you can use it to edge the front of a flowerbed. Fortunately, the blue-gray foliage won't get lost among the greenery.

Purple Fountain Grass

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum Setaceum 'Purpureum') is the ornamental grass for people who don't grow ornamental grass. Grown as an annual in most places, it is often used as a backdrop for annual flowerbeds and as a centerpiece in a container. The dark foliage and tan flowerheads are a sight to behold.

Pampas Grass

Dwarf Pampas Grass (Cortaderia Selloana 'Pumila') is highly recognizable. Due to the huge white feathery plumes that decorate the thick, blue-green foliage in late summer and fall. Although this pampas grass is a dwarf, it still reaches 5 feet tall, so place it in the back of a border.

— Luke Miller is an award-winning garden editor with 25 years' experience in horticultural communications, including editing a national magazine and creating print and online gardening content for a national retailer. He grew up across the street from a park arboretum and has a lifelong passion for gardening in general and trees in particular. In addition to his journalism degree, he has studied horticulture and is a Master Gardener. | FamilyHandyMan.Com

[sparklingbinjuice]

July 15th

content warnings: suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, alcohol abuse, drunk driving, car accident, drowning, referenced child death

July 15th was always a difficult day. Every year it seemed to arrive pre-packaged with a familiar series of visceral sensations and a tsunami of memories inevitably accompanying them. The sticky summer heat. The scent of wood smoke and barbecue hanging in the still air. The distant laughter and shrieking of kids reveling in another week of seemingly endless freedom.

In vacant lots and overgrown yards the grasses were tall, dry and yellowing – alive with the buzz of invisible insects: crickets and grasshoppers. Marc remembered hunting for them as a child, stumbling over tufts of stubborn prairie dropseed as he searched intently for the source of the sound. Randy had always been behind him, following dutifully.

July 15th was harder in the late afternoon, when the sun was still high and bright, promising security with its fingers crossed all the while behind its blazing back. How could anything bad happen on a day like this? It asked reassuringly, rolling on a perfect canvas of brilliant blue. How? (Wink). How?

Marc had woken up with a pit in his stomach, and neither Layla’s gentle touch nor half a bottle of bourbon had filled it.

He beckoned for another double, forearms braced against the sticky wooden counter. The bartender gave him a knowing, sympathetic smile that had him staring at his clenched fists, cheeks burning with shame. He tried to take the next one slow.

But July 15th was hardest when it rained. And it was fucking pouring.

Keep reading on AO3 :)

[aisling-saoirse]

My Side Garden Over 4 Years

In 2019 the last of the 15 Ash Trees adjacent to my mother's home were taken out and I had decided to garden now that I had access to a yard again. The soil here is very rocky, prior to being constructed the side of this yard was a forest on the property line of a farm, that's why our ash were massive before they succumb to the borer.

The first year I planted some Perennials from a box-store and threw a random 'wildflower' seed mix in and unsurprisingly most of them died (although sweet-williams and cornflower persist which is fine with me)

The next year a whole bunch of annual cosmos and Zinnia took over but the only surviving perennials were native plants, after that I got more into native plants and got some native seeds from an adjacent field, Prairie Moon, and the forest that I spread. Then I got some native perennials from a local grower or took some divisions from my aunt (and grew some marigolds to keep the deer away).

The next year everything established and I did a layer of mulch over leaf litter to improve the soil a little, I discovered that in the coming drought this retained a decent amount of moisture for my young plants, I also noticed the diversity of insects and bird life that these plants brought. Our Yard was the only one with monarch caterpillars, constantly churning with butterflies, I noticed all new stingless bee species I'd never seen before, so many fascinating native fauna that never had decent habitat prior to this. I convinced the rest of my family to change their ways, less lawn, no pesticides at all, and less aggressive maintenance (I still weed but not as much because the perennials block out a lot of new growth). I noticed something else, fireflies I had grown up seeing were disappearing around the neighborhood, but not in this yard, because we had provided that proper leaf layer habitat for these fireflies, they were extremely abundant in our patch of garden. all the other neighbors who poison their gardens and heavily maintain lawns had nothing lighting up around them.

I'm studying in Landscape Architecture, work in architecture currently, my gardens look horrible because to me they are an opportunity to learn how plants grow. This year I made sure to keep leaf layer untouched in the hopes I could keep the fireflies, the garden looks really full even with little rain this may! it doesn't look perfect but the garden is more for ecosystem value (albeit rather small but to expand upon existing field nearby).

I try to plant things that I've seen growing wild locally, local natives in my garden as seen above include: Joe Pye Weed, Blueberry bush (highbush), Common Milkweed, Swamp Rose Milkweed, Butterfly Weed (ascelpias tuberosa), Columbines, White Snakeroot, spicebush, elderberry (this one is small in this garden), wild bergamot, various aster species, anise hyssop, and a tulip poplar sapling :)

Natives that are within this ecological region but not common to my area: blazing star, prairie blazing star, False Indigo, Blue flag Iris, Black eye'd Susan's, purple coneflower, obedient plant, Prairie dropseed, palm sedge, various sunflower species, bee balm, st. John's wort, whorled milkweed, various azaeleas, tickseed, eastern bluestar, Blue lobelia, and a persimmon tree

Nonnatives that do well and don't compete: English lavender, sweet Williams, 'Shasta' daisies, rocket larkspur, astilbes, cosmos (self seeding), tea rose, various herbs and annuals I throw in there like sunflowers, corn, amaranth.

[patternbreaking]

prairie plants on the first day of spring, or, photos i lay down in my front yard for

rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium), little bluestem (Sciyzachyrium scoparium), prairie smoke (Geum triflorum), prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)

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By Tedd Hucks, done at Tedd2s, Peterborough. http://ttoo.co/p/24005

[travelella]

Plains Bison in Custer, South Dakota, USA

Stephanie LeBlanc

The Plains bison is one of two subspecies/ecotypes of the American bison, the other being the wood bison.

Status: Near Threatened

Population: 45,000

Scientific Name: Bison bison bison

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Family: Bovidae

Subfmaily: Bovinae

Tribe: Bovini

Genus: Bison

Weight: 701 to 2,000 pounds

Length: 7-12 ft.

Habitat: Grassland

Range: Bison once roamed from Florida to Washington, Canada, and Mexico - The entire U.S.

Predators: Wolves are the primary predator of bison across the continent. Local knowledge also indicates that bears play a role in predation.

Diet: Bison are considered generalist foragers, meaning they eat a wide array of herbaceous grasses and sedges commonly found in mixed-grassed prairies. These types of plants include species such as Blue gramma, sand dropseed, and little bluestem.

Lifespan: The average lifespan for a bison is 10–20 years, but some live to be older. Cows begin breeding at the age of two and only have one baby at a time. For males, the prime breeding age is six to 10 years.

Importance: Bison graze the grasses at different heights, providing nesting grounds for birds. They also roll around and pack down the soil in depressions in the ground known as wallows. Their wallows fill with rainwater and offer breeding pools for amphibians and sources of drinking water for wildlife across the landscape.

[forget-me-knots-behind-our-eyes]

The rolling to nearly level plains of the Northern Blackland Prairie ecoregion are underlain by interbedded chalks, marls, limestones, and shales of Cretaceous age. Soils are mostly fine-textured, dark, calcareous, and productive Vertisols. Historical vegetation was dominated by little bluestem, big bluestem, yellow Indiangrass, and tall dropseed. In lowlands and more mesic sites, such as on some of the clayey Vertisol soils in the higher precipitation areas to the northeast, dominant grasses were eastern gamagrass and switchgrass. Also in the northeast, over loamy Alfisols, were grass communities dominated by Silveanus dropseed, Mead’s sedge, bluestems, and long-spike tridens. Common forbs included asters, prairie bluet, prairie clovers, and black-eyed susan. Stream bottoms were often wooded with bur oak, Shumard oak, sugar hackberry, elm, ash, eastern cottonwood, and pecan. Most of the prairie has been converted to cropland, non-native pasture, and expanding urban uses around Dallas, Waco, Austin, and San Antonio.

Descriptions of the Level IV Ecoregions of Texas