It prefers short stands of grass in which blue grama is dominant and interspersed with bare ground ... Small-scale displacements of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) within arid grasslands. J.

If you are looking for a more low-maintenance lawn, you should consider planting blue grama grass. A warm-season, short-growing, perennial grass, blue grama is native to over half the states in ...

He appears in Grasslands: A Hidden Wilderness, a documentary from The Nature of Things, and is the author of several books including Islands of Grass.