NOUN
- any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States
How To Use bunchgrass In A Sentence
- Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground. Bird Cloud
- Sagebrush and bunchgrass associations dominate plant assemblages outside of heavily farmed or grazed areas. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
- The preferred overwintering sites of adult chinch bugs are dense clumps of native warm-season bunchgrasses such as little bluestem, big bluestem and switchgrass.
- Grass meadows are widespread at higher elevations of the Turkestan, Zaravshan, and Gissar ranges; fescue (Festuca alaica) is a dominant bunchgrass species here. Gissaro-Alai open woodlands
- Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground. Bird Cloud
- The shaggy whiskers, almost bare in places, and in others massing into bunchgrass-like clumps, were plentifully splashed with gray. CHAPTER 22
- Native vegetation consists of bunchgrass and sagebrush. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
- Western juniper grows on shallow, rocky soils with an understory of low sagebrush, big sagebrush, bitterbrush, and bunchgrasses. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
- These ecosystems include the páramo, a dense alpine vegetation growing on a thick mat of sponge-like, highly absorbent mosses and grasses in the cold, humid reaches of the northern Andes, and the drier puna, characterized by alpine bunchgrass species surrounded by herbs, grasses, sedges, lichens, mosses and ferns in the cold but dry southern Tropical Andes. Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes
- The preferred overwintering sites of adult chinch bugs are dense clumps of native warm-season bunchgrasses such as little bluestem, big bluestem and switchgrass.