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bluestem

[ bloo-stem ]

noun

  1. any of several prairie grasses of the genus Andropogon, having bluish leaf sheaths, now grown in the western U.S. for forage.


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Origin of bluestem1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55; blue + stem 1
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North Creek introduced Standing Ovation, a little bluestem that stands tall — 3 to 4 feet — through all four seasons.

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A field of bluestem unfurled to the south.

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“I see the backlit gray-green leaves of little bluestem on hot summer afternoons, and the backlit coppery leaves of those same grasses through the winter,†he writes.

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The land that hasn’t been cleared and converted to Bermuda grass for cattle grazing is covered in dense forest, or native grasses like little bluestem.

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In the two-acre meadow in Delaware, plants are set amid a sea of prairie dropseed grass; in another bed, the matrix is of a low grass named little bluestem.

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