[DOC] [TLE] Geography The Great Plains - Jefferson National Expansion ... [PAR] The French colonists called them prairies, which means "large meadows. .... It is 
estimated that half of the original mass of the Rockies has been washed into the 
... the way the plains looked when Lewis and Clark first saw them might run like 
this: ... Common grasses were the big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) and 
switch... [DOC] [TLE] Integrative Biology 335 The Tallgrass Prairie - Biology at the ... [PAR] this state's heritage, and in the past few years there have been numerous 
conferences, radio programs, ... This is part of the tallgrass prairie region, 
sometimes called the true prairie, with the landscape dominated by grasses such 
as big bluestem ..... By late autumn some of the plants attain a height of 6 to 10 
feet or more. [DOC] [TLE] 2.0 The Flint Hills Story Exhibit Description: Area Theme Title ... [PAR] People say that the prairie is a sea of grassundulating waves that swell and 
recede as the ... In Annick Smith, Big Bluestem: A Journey into the Tall Grass, p. [DOC] [TLE] Prairies of the Midwest - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [PAR] was nothing to compare to the sea of grass they encountered so the settlers used 
... These tall grasses can reach 12 feet into the sky and are dominated by Big ... 
Today many of these prairie plants have been replaced by another tall ... 
vegetation in Iowa and Illinois consists of over 300 different species of native 
grasses and. [DOC] [TLE] Little Habitats on the Prairies - Minnesota Department of Natural ... [PAR] Minnesota has a wild placecalled tallgrass prairie. Millions ... They called it ... 
They saw bright blue sky over a sea of tall grass. Big bluestem, Indian grass, and 
... 6 feet. Some people call it turkey footbecause the seed heads look like three 
long. [DOC] [TLE] Native Prairie Grasses - Wolf Prairie - Restoring Ecology, Protecting ... [PAR] Imagine a sea of grass, six feet tall as far as the eye can see. ... Big bluestem was 
called Turkey Foot grass - can you see it? ... The blue stem has been told to be 
the ice cream for cows and it cannot take concentrated grazing, causing a period 
... Much like the little and big bluestem switch grass grows abundantly and tall. [DOC] [TLE] The Great American Prairie [PAR] sway like the waves of the sea. Early settlers often called the prairie a sea of 
grass. ... in midsummer, grasses could be as tall ... prairie. A Sea of Grass ... 
prairie had been plowed and planted with crops. ... have roots 6 feet long. Prairie 
chicken. The prairie chicken is also known as ... Big bluestem grass is a blue-
violet color. [DOC] [TLE] Prairie PDF - NDStudies.gov [PAR] The Habitats of North Dakota units have been produced, published, and 
distributed by the North ... 6. Tallgrass Prairie . .... is a program called the 
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). CRP was .... 1700s observed that the 
land looked like a sea of grass. .... heights of 6 to 7 feet included big bluestem 
and Indiangrass. [DOC] [TLE] big bluestem | Intentional Living [PAR] I promised a post about grasses that grow well in Nebraska, and it's been a while 
since I updated, so here it is. ... Big bluestem is also called turkey's foot after the 
shape of the seed heads. ... If you plant a lawn of buffalo grass, it is possible to 
have a great-looking lawn ... Indiangrass is a tallgrass, growing from 4 to 6 feet 
tall. [DOC] [TLE] Fermilab History and Archives Project | Natural History - Prairie [PAR] Some 180,000 pounds of blue grass seed have been used since the Fall of 1969. 
... by tall grasses sprinkled with a variety of colorful flowering plants, has almost ... 
Perennial grasses, such as big bluestem and Indian grass, give the prairie its .... 
marketing of the 1/6 million bushels of corn may represent over $400,000 in... [DOC] [TLE] Tallgrass Prairie - Tarleton State University [PAR] Tallgrass prairie dominated by "The Four Horsemen of the Prairies": big bluestem 
.... Flint

Question: The prairie has been called a "Sea of" this, like the over 6-foot-tall Big Bluestem
Answer: Grass