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

Rossi and two colleagues were walking through a quiet corner called the Hill of Graves when they stumbled on a patch of little bluestem, a well-known native prairie grass, rising out of a spot the mowers had missed.

From Popular-Science

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