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Indian Grass

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INDIAN GRASS

 

 

 

 

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Common Name: Indian Grass

Other Names: Yellow Indian Grass

Latin Name: Sorghastrum Nutans

Plant Family: Poaceae

 

 

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Indian grass - click to see all flower & plant symbols

          http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Oklahoma/StateGrass.html                                                                            FLOWER AND LEAF FACTS                           


     The flower of the Indian Grass  produces 2.5 pounds of seeds in its life time. Indian Grass can reach heights of up to 7-8 feet tall. The Indian Grass flower has soft fluffy seeds that hang from the stem. Indian Grass also has a leaf that can grow 2 feet long  and are stiff and straight.

The leaf of the Indian grass veins run in parallel lines from the stem. The leaves are flat and hairless.

 

 


http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/ind_grass.htm

      

                                   HABITAT OF THE INDIAN GRASS

 

 

 

 

     Indian Grass lives in savannas and sandy savannas. They can also live in black soil prairies, clay prairies, sand prairies, gravel prairies, dolomite prairies, hill prairies, cemetery prairies, barrens with scrubby vegetation, limestone glades, grassy fens, fallow fields, roadsides, and areas along railroads.
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http://www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/community.aspx?=30022

 

                                     

                              CHARACTERISTICS AND FUN FACTS

 

 

    The Indian Grass can get up to 3-7 feet tall. Its roots can grow 8 feet deep. The flower has a brownish yellowish color. The Indian Grass is one of the most dominate plants of the prairie. It grows best with full sun light. Indian Grass attracts birds. But it also attracts insects so they can lay their eggs. Indian Grass is the state plant in both Oklahoma and South Carolina.

 

Often compared to the feathers of an American India headdress;Indian grass is relished by all livestock, it provides high-quality forage; very good for nesting and rearing areas of wildlife. Indian grass is easily confused with big blue stem.

 

 

 

 

                                                                                          ROOTS AND SEED

 

                    The root of the Indian Grass get 8 feet deep. Also the are fibrous

roots that means that its a network of roots not a big root with small ones coming off of it. The seed is 1/2 cm.

 

 

 

 

                                                Seedling and Juvenile

 

  Unlike other seedlings the bottom of the Indain Grass seedling is a little red and purple. The Indain Grass is easily identified as a juvenile Indain Grass. Other plants in there juvenile stage are harder to recognize.

 

 

                                           Bloom Period and Threats    

          The bloom period is August and September. The threats are cattle because cattle eat Indain Grass and humans because we use the the parir for farmland.

 

 

 

 

                                        Info. Found at..........                                           

 

 

     Jewels of the prairie, Prairie roots, Botanical Garden, Wild Flower info,

 

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