### plant | tracheophyte | herb | grass:

Ornamental grass
* Many ornamental grasses turn color during the winter.
* Most ornamental grasses prefer full sun and well-drained soils
  - but there are a few species that tolerate light shade
  - sun locations
  - provide interesting winter foliage effects when left standing
* Some ornamental grasses get extremely tall.
* are also drought-resistant and low maintenance
  - eye-catching
  - remarkably pest-free
  - among the easiest ornamental plants to grow in the landscape
  - an amazing group of plants
  - attractive landscape plants
  - available in a wide array of colors, shapes, textures and sizes
  - beautiful, inexpensive, easy to find and easy to grow in all types of soil
  - bold accents, providing year-round color, texture and shape
  - easy to grow and adapt to just about any garden setting
  - extremely easy to plant and grow
  - no match for the appetite of the porcupines either
  - the cutting edge of garden design
  - tough as nails and are unaffected by drought
  - undoubtedly one of the easiest types of plants to grow
  - very easy to propagate from root divisions
  - virtually pest free and can withstand many environmental changes
* can offer a special textural element which persevere through four seasons
  - serve many functions in the landscape
  - turn a mundane perennial border or landscape into a work of art
* come in a wide array of growth habits, tones, and sizes.
* continue to flower from mid-summer through to the fall.
* have several uses as functional landscape plants.
* tolerate drought, wetness, and fluctuating winter temperatures.
* vary in size from two to six feet and larger.

Pampas grass
* can be a very attractive and functional plant when used correctly in the landscape
  - grow on a wide variety of soils
* grows on the high plains or pampas of South America.
* is feathery
* is grown in many countries as an ornamental plant
  - throughout Alabama
* large bunchgrass from South America.

Pasture grass
* Some pasture grass has nutrition
  - proper nutrition
* compete with ever-increasing numbers of creosotebush and mesquite bushes.

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Perennial grass
* All perennial grasses require some seed coverage by mineral soil before the seed can germinate.
* Many perennial grasses maintain some leaves near the soil surface that are difficult to graze.
* Some perennial grass produces buds.
* appear to have potential in agriculture on valley flats with shallow watertables.
* are easiest to grow because their root systems become very drought tolerant
  - the dominant plants and they support huge herds of grazing mammals
* can be difficult to eradicate if they become established within the clumps
  - exhibit a period of dormancy after reproduction finishes
* differ in their tolerance to freezing and weather damage.
* have many benefits as a bioenergy crop.
* provide both early and late-season grazing opportunities.
* survive season after season, producing and growing.
* takes three to five years before it is mature enough to produce adequate seed.
* tend to be prominent in areas infested with Russian olive.

Prairie cordgrass
* Most prairie cordgrasses have distribution
  - wide distribution
* grows on wet banks of sluggish streams and around ponds.
* has deep rhizomes which allow it to survive fires
  - great ability to stabilize soil and prevent water erosion
* is easy to grow and turns golden brown in late summer
  - the most abundant grass of low floodplains and wetlands in Indiana
* provides fair to poor forage for livestock and wildlife.