buffalo grass

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A species of short grass from two to four inches high, covering the boundless prairies on which the buffaloes feed. A remarkable characteristic of some varieties of this grass, is that "the blade, killed by the frost of winter, is resuscitated in the spring, and gradually becomes green from the root up, without casting its stubble or emitting new shoots."--Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, p. 287.

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