{"id":1075,"date":"2025-06-04T10:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:56:58","slug":"grama-grasses-of-missouris-prairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/2025\/06\/04\/grama-grasses-of-missouris-prairies\/","title":{"rendered":"Grama Grasses of Missouri\u2019s Prairies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_0909.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1081\" style=\"width:630px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_0909.jpg 900w, https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_0909-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_0909-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Bouteloua curtipendula<\/em>a with orange anthers and white stigma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Missouri sits squarely in the tallgrass prairie region, and the grassland plants that normally dominate in remnant prairies are relative giants, such as big bluestem (<em>Andropogon gerardii<\/em>), little bluestem (<em>Schizachyrium scoparium<\/em>), and eastern gamagrass (<em>Tripsacum dactyloides<\/em>). These grasses are rightfully the major focus of attention by nature lovers and cattle producers with native pastures in the state, but there are many other grass species inhabiting the Missouri prairies that deserve some appreciation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On page 16 of the new issue of Missouri Prairie Journal below, I give a summary of the <em>Bouteloua<\/em> genus in the state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1R0AbjWrInZerUk8f9EHK3ZcsMckriVVS\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to read journal (pdf file)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri sits squarely in the tallgrass prairie region, and the grassland plants that normally dominate in remnant prairies are relative giants, such as big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), and eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). These grasses are rightfully the major focus of attention by nature lovers and cattle producers with native pastures in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macrophotography","category-species-observations","tag-bouteloua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}