''Bothriochloa saccharoides'' is a species of

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

known by the common name silver bluestem. It is native to the Americas, including Mexico, the Caribbean, and parts of Central and South America. This perennial

bunchgrass Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial ...

grows to 2 to 3 feet in height. The leaves reach 8 inches long. The stems are often purplish toward the base. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

is white and hairy. The plant produces many seeds.''Bothriochloa saccharoides''.
USDA NRCS Plant Fact Sheet. This species is used for

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...

cattle, especially in the spring before the inflorescences form. Goats eat the seed heads. The grass can be added to a

hay Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, either for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep, or for smaller domesticated ...

mix.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2285704 saccharoides Flora of North America Flora of South America