grama

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I love watching the early birds skitter through the brown clutter in our side yard, hopping from one clump to the next, selecting long stalks of dried side oats grama for their nests.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

My grama, who just turned 90 in September, wholeheartedly agrees, arguing that it's life's most simple and unassuming pleasures that keep her so upbeat and optimistic.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2022

Other recent blooms include a native grass called needle grama, brittle creosote, desert senna, Acton encelia or brittlebush, and big galleta grass.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2021

The leaked brine killed every sprig of grama and bluestem grasses and shinnery shrubs it touched.

From US News • Sep. 8, 2015

In spite of the rest here, the animals did not seem to improve on the grama and buffalo grass.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl