It has strong potential for summer pasture and hayland plantings on good moisture sites. 1973 Little bluestem is a drought tolerant, tufted perennial bunchgrass of the mixed grass prairie. It is often included as a minor component of rangeland seed mixtures and is well adapted to limey soils of both wet and dry sites. Blaze and Camper are marginally adapted to North Dakota. Sand bluestern is a tall perennial, sod-forming grass of sandy areas similar to big bluestem in appearance.
Primary use is on deep sands range sites and revegetation of blow-out areas.
Garden is more persistent than Goldstrike.