Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
1July and August are the rain months during which time the gramma grass grows.
2Of all the native forage plants the gramma grass is the most abundant and best.
3Every blade of gramma grass, with its shining bronze-tufted seed head, had significance for her.
4The districts they frequented were vast sandy uplands sparsely covered with the tufty buffalo or gramma grass.
5Fine gramma grass covers the entire valley and an underground river furnishes an inexhaustible supply of good water.
6Dry as this gramma grass appears, it possesses nutritive qualities, as the animals which feed on it abundantly prove.
7No permanent spring nor stream of water was known to exist in that whole region, but fine gramma grass grew everywhere.
8The gramma grass of the and region grows quickly and turns gray instead of brown, as grasses usually do when they mature.
9We rode through seemingly endless meadows of fine gramma grass and saw the sleek cattle feeding on plenty and enjoying perfect contentment.