Crossword-Solution: BLUESTEM 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

While we were lying there against the warm bank, a little insect of the palest, frailest green hopped painfully out of the buffalo grass and tried to leap into a bunch of bluestem.

Along the roadsides, from under the dead weeds and wisps of dried bluestem, the dandelions thrust up their clean, bright faces.

For an hour, helpless to prevent the stampede, desiring nothing now but to keep the cattle in sight, the weary, sunbaked children trudged along in the rear of the herd, following through fields cut and uncut, over the short grass of the hills or the long bluestem of the hollows, their horses sweating profusely, their own faces too parched to emit moisture, conscious only of the business of following the panting herd and of avoiding the pitfalls under their horses' feet.

The study area includes the zone of transition from bluestem or tall-grass prairie to the buffalo grass or short-grass prairie.

Along a small dry gully in an eroded field formerly cultivated, and reverted to tall grass prairie (big bluestem, little bluestem, switch grass, Indian grass), the frogs were numerous.