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Bouteloua barbata is a species of grass known by the common name six-weeks grama native to North America.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Argentina, Bouteloua, Chaparral, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado Desert, Common name, Creosote, Desert kangaroo rat, Forage, Grassland, Harvester ant, Inflorescence, Livestock, Mariano Lagasca, Mojave Desert, Montana, Oaxaca, Overgrazing, Pinus ponderosa, Pinyon–juniper woodland, Poaceae, Prairie, Prairie dog, Savanna, Seed dispersal, Shrub–steppe, Sonoran Desert, Stolon, Variety (botany).

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Bouteloua

Bouteloua is a genus of plants in the grass family.

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Chaparral

Chaparral is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.

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Chihuahuan Desert

The Chihuahuan Desert (Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

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Colorado Desert

Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States and Baja California, Mexico.

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.

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Creosote

Creosote is a category of carbonaceous chemicals formed by the distillation of various tars and pyrolysis of plant-derived material, such as wood, or fossil fuel.

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Desert kangaroo rat

The desert kangaroo rat (Dipodomys deserti) is a rodent species in the family Heteromyidae that is found in desert areas of southwestern North America.

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Forage

Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock.

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Grassland

A grassland is an area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae).

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Harvester ant

Harvester ant is a common name for any of the species or genera of ants that collect seeds (called seed predation), or mushrooms as in the case of Euprenolepis procera, which are stored in the nest in communal chambers called granaries.

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Inflorescence

An inflorescence, in a flowering plant, is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Mariano Lagasca

Mariano Lagasca y Segura (1776–1839), also known as Mariano la Gasca, was a Spanish botanist, writer and doctor.

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Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert (Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Oaxaca

Oaxaca (also,, from Huāxyacac), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the Federative Entities of the United Mexican States.

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Overgrazing

Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.

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Pinus ponderosa

Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine, is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America.

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Pinyon–juniper woodland

Pinyon–juniper woodland, also spelled piñon–juniper woodland, is a biome found mid-elevations in arid regions of the Western United States, characterized by being an open forest dominated by low, bushy, evergreen junipers, pinyon pines, and their associates. Bouteloua barbata and Pinyon–juniper woodland are Flora of the Southwestern United States.

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Poaceae

Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.

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Prairie

Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

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Prairie dog

Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) are herbivorous burrowing ground squirrels native to the grasslands of North America.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Seed dispersal

In spermatophyte plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant.

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Shrub–steppe

Shrub-steppe is a type of low-rainfall natural grassland.

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Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert (Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona and California).

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Stolon

In biology, stolons (from Latin stolō, genitive stolōnis – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between parts of an organism.

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Variety (botany)

In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies, but above that of form.

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See also

Bouteloua

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouteloua_barbata

Also known as Chondrosum barbatum, Six-week gramma, Six-weeks Grama, Sixweeks grama.