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Bouteloua curtipendula
Also called Side Oats Grama, Tall Grama, Tall Grama Grass, Side Oats
Sideoats grama is a native, warm-season, clump-forming perennial prairie grass of North and Central America, prized for drought tolerance and erosion control. The key to growing it is full sun and well-drained soil, as it thrives with little water once established.
Bouteloua curtipendula, commonly known as sideoats grama, is a perennial, short prairie grass that is native throughout the temperate and tropical Western Hemisphere, from Canada south to Argentina.
The species epithet comes from Latin curtus "shortened" and pendulus "hanging".
It is cultivated as an ornamental plant for native plant and drought-tolerant gardens.
Sideoats grama grows well on mountainous plateaus, rocky slopes, and sandy plains. It is drought- and cold-tolerant and is hardy in USDA hardiness zones 4–9 (average annual minimums of −30 to 25 °F, −34 to −4 °C).
Sideoats grama is considered a good foraging grass for livestock. It is planted for erosion control.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bouteloua curtipendula by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
