100 Diamond Tail Rd
Placitas, NM. 87043
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Grasses Around Diamond Tail Ranch

There are at least 22 grasses native to Diamond Tail, and there are some lovely ones here.  Sprinkled along the roadsides and in roadcuts grow Big, Little and Silver Bluestem, all with umber colored stems. while the fluffed out seedhead of Bottlebrush Squirreltail looks just like it’s name.  The edible seeded Indian Rice grass grows here, intermingling with abundant Needle-and-Thread Grass.  Back off the roads of Diamond Tail, one can often find ring muhly named for it’s habit of growing in circles.

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Alkali Sacaton	Foxtail Barley	Big Bluestem	Little Bluestem	Bottlebrush Squirreltail	Japanese Broom
Cheatgrass/ Downy Chess	Meadow Fescue	Galleta	Blue Grama	Blue Grama	Sideoat Grama
Indian Rice Grass	Johnson Grass	Ring Muhly	Needlegrass	March Spike Rush	Green Sprangletop
	Purple Three-Awn	Six-Weeks Three-Awn	Slender Wheatgrass	Western Wheatgrass