What is Bouteloua?
Bouteloua is a genus of plants that is part of the Poaceae family. It contains about 40 kinds of annual and permanent grasses that come from North and South America. These grasses usually grow on meadows and open grass stands. Most species are tolerant and brown during the winter. This group of grasses attracts several types of butterflies and birds.
This genus is named after Claudio Boutelou, Spanish Horticulture, which lived in 1774-1842. The general name for grass in this family is gram. Most species have variations of common name. For example, Bouteloua Curtipendula is known as Sideoats Gram and Bouteloua gracilis is called a blue gram. Bouteloua dactyloides is commonly referred to as Buffalo grass. b. is found dactyloides from Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada, through the big plains in the US and down to Puebly, Mexico. b. Curtipendula has a similar range, but extends to Central America and down to South America, to the south as Argentina.
b. Dactyloides is used in North America as grass lawn. It is a permanent grass grass that has gray-green or blue-green grass. If it is left to avoid diminishing, it will reach a height of 12 inches (30 cm). The stems are thin and the leaves are curled. This grass spreads through a rhizome, which is an underground stem from which the roots reach into the soil.
Buffalo grass flowers are usually yellow and form in the spikes. The Bloom season is generally from January to March and October to December. Butterflies are attracted to flowering and birds use different parts of grass as a nesting material.
Buffalo Grass is dry -resistant extremes. When growing in clay soil, it can survive at 1.5 inches (about 4 cm) of precipitation per month. Blue Gram is even more resistant to drought resistance. It is usually mixed with a buffalo of grass in drying areas.
generally, well exhausting soil consisting of clay, clay or limestone, provides sufficient support for the grass of buffalo. The area in which the grass is set should be exposed to direct sunlight. During the winter the grass becomes sleeping.
Some problems associated with grass Buffalo include a stain of rust and tar. Both are fungal diseases that cause leaves and stems. The use of fungicide on grass can prevent the spread of the mushroom.