This is a perennial bunch grass reaching heights of one to one and a half meters.
Native plant grass species, both individual bunch grasses and in grasslands, are especially vulnerable.
It is suspected that native perennial bunch grasses were dominant elements.
Defenders lying in tall bunch grass would have an advantage over men charging across the flat meadow toward the herd.
A rifle popped from a clump of bunch grass near the picketed horses.
Thus, "Jiskairumoko" means a small hill with bunch grass.
A drought in the early 1900s caused a scarcity in bunch grass, their main food source.
There were a few patches of open ground covered with what appeared to be bunch grass or other desert growth.
In these areas, only nutrient-poor, tough bunch grasses and Festuca grow.
Tufts of bunch grass grew among the yucca, but nothing larger.