Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two perennial grasses of western North America (Sporobolus wrightii or S. airoides), used for forage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
zacaton .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tufted perennial grass grown in the southwesternUnited States andMexico and used forhay andpasture in dryalkaline areas.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The typical desert shrubs and grasses growing in these environments, such as creosotebush, tarbush, fourwing saltbush, blackbrush, gyp grama, and alkali sacaton, must withstand large diurnal ranges in temperature, low available moisture, and an extremely high evapotranspiration rate.
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Brushy species from adjacent dry uplands occur at the margins, such as honey mesquite, huisache, blackbrush, and lotebush, with some grasses such as multiflowered false rhodesgrass, sacaton, cottontop, and plains bristlegrass.
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Native grasses included alkali sacaton, galleta grass, poverty threeawn, sand dropseed, and Indian ricegrass.
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The typical desert shrubs and grasses, the dominant creosotebush, along with tarbush, fourwing saltbush, acacias, gyp grama, and alkali sacaton, must withstand large seasonal and diurnal ranges in temperature, low available moisture, and a high evapotranspiration rate.
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Vegetation of alkali sacaton, fourwing saltbush, and greasewood is found in the low areas.
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Natural vegetation includes fourwing saltbush and alkali sacaton.
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Floodplains have alkaline soils that support greasewood, alkali sacaton, seepweed, and shadscale.
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Vegetation is dominated by black greasewood, spiny hopsage, bud sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, inland saltgrass, alkali sacaton, and basin wildrye.
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The arid climate (just 6 inches of precipitation per year) supports desert shrubs and grasses: greasewood, Gardner saltbush, shadscale, alkali sacaton, and saltgrass.
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Saltbush species, alkali sacaton, sand dropseed, and mixed grama grasses occur.
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