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Blue Grama Wild Grass or Bouteloua gracilis The grass seeds looked like a thin black stripe until I held it to the sun and then the brilliant colors jumped out at me. <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/135061/blue_grama_or_bouteloua_gracilis.html" title="Blue Grama or Bouteloua gracilis"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/5803/135061_thumb.JPEG?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=6G32sK3DOZmt%2BWdLXr9eW8%2Bv78A%3D" width="200" height="134" alt="Blue Grama or Bouteloua gracilis This grass has a stem with multiple curls which surround the stems of adjacent plants and locks to it. It is the state grass of Colorado and New Mexico<br />
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When it is seed it looked like a thin black stripe until I held it to the light then the colors jumped out. Blue grama,Bouteloua gracilis,Geotagged,Spring,United States" /></a></figure><br />
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Blue Grama Wild Grass or Bouteloua gracilis

The grass seeds looked like a thin black stripe until I held it to the sun and then the brilliant colors jumped out at me.

Blue Grama or Bouteloua gracilis This grass has a stem with multiple curls which surround the stems of adjacent plants and locks to it. It is the state grass of Colorado and New Mexico<br />
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/153482/blue_grama_wild_grass_or_bouteloua_gracilis.html<br />
When it is seed it looked like a thin black stripe until I held it to the light then the colors jumped out. Blue grama,Bouteloua gracilis,Geotagged,Spring,United States

    comments (5)

  1. Blue grama is the state grass of Colorado and New Mexico. When it dries out the seed head curls around and grabs other plants Posted 2 years ago
    1. It makes a beautifully iridescent color! Posted 2 years ago
      1. Looking at it from straight above , it just looks like a black thin rectangle. It was when I stopped and took a closer from the side in the sun that I saw the red and green colors. Posted 2 years ago
        1. Lovely! Posted one year ago
  2. Very beautiful! Posted 2 years ago

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"Bouteloua gracilis", the blue grama, is a long-lived, warm-season perennial grass, native to North America. It is most commonly found from Alberta, Canada, east to Manitoba and south across the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and U.S. Midwest states, onto the northern Mexican Plateau in Mexico.

Similar species: Grasses, Bromeliads, Sedges
Species identified by William Bodine
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Uploaded Sep 3, 2023. Captured Aug 30, 2023 11:50 in 2GGQ+R8, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA.
  • Canon EOS 70D
  • f/4.5
  • 1/395s
  • ISO100
  • 100mm