little bluestem

noun

1. a North American forage grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, having wide often bluish blades.

Word History and Origins

Origin of little bluestem¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

North Creek introduced Standing Ovation, a little bluestem that stands tall — 3 to 4 feet — through all four seasons.

From Washington Post

“I see the backlit gray-green leaves of little bluestem on hot summer afternoons, and the backlit coppery leaves of those same grasses through the winter,” he writes.

From Washington Post

One of his favorite sections contains sweeps of the grass little bluestem and the perennial sweet everlasting amid scattered plantings of pitch pines.

From Washington Post

The land that hasn’t been cleared and converted to Bermuda grass for cattle grazing is covered in dense forest, or native grasses like little bluestem.

From Washington Post

In the two-acre meadow in Delaware, plants are set amid a sea of prairie dropseed grass; in another bed, the matrix is of a low grass named little bluestem.

From Seattle Times