Grassland

Coxilhas (hills covered by grasslands) in the Pampas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.

Quercus robur -also known as the English oak- dominating the semi-natural grasslands

Main land-cover trajectories from the 1960s to 2015

Cumberland Plain Woodland, a grassy woodland that covers Western Sydney

Grassland in the Antelope Valley, California

Dominated by grasses .

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.

Senecio angulatus, a herbaceous scrambler and climber

Some habitats, like grasslands and prairies and savannas, are dominated by herbaceous plants along with aquatic environments like ponds, streams and lakes.

Miocene

First geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about .

The Mediterranean during the Late Miocene

The dragon blood tree is considered a remnant of the Mio-Pliocene Laurasian subtropical forests that are now almost extinct in North Africa.

Cameloid footprint (Lamaichnum alfi Sarjeant and Reynolds, 1999; convex hyporelief) from the Barstow Formation (Miocene) of Rainbow Basin, California.

Fossils from the Calvert Formation, Zone 10, Calvert Co., MD (Miocene)

A Miocene crab (Tumidocarcinus giganteus) from the collection of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis

As in the Oligocene before it, grasslands continued to expand and forests to dwindle in extent.

Meadow

Open habitat, or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants.

Urban Meadow at Botaniska Trädgården, Uppsala, Sweden

An urban meadow at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, New York

A meadow (pasture) maintained by grazing livestock.

Conifers encroaching on a meadow in Washington, USA.

The perpetual alpine meadows in Uttarakhand, India (western Himalayas).

The Coastal meadows at the Bay of Biscay near Tapia de Casariego, Spain

A desert meadow near Walla Walla, Washington USA.

Natural meadows and grasslands at Lake Baikal, Russia.

Flood meadow near Hohenau an der March, Austria

Meadows in Shangarh, Himachal Pradesh, India

However, grasslands and meadows also have an important climate change mitigation potential as carbon sinks; deep-rooted grasses store a substantial amount of carbon in soil.

Biome

Distinct biogeographical unit consisting of a biological community that has formed in response to a shared regional climate.

Holdridge life zone classification scheme. Although conceived as three-dimensional by its originator, it is usually shown as a two-dimensional array of hexagons in a triangular frame.

The distribution of vegetation types as a function of mean annual temperature and precipitation.

Terrestrial biomes of the world according to Olson et al. and used by the WWF and Global 200.

Grasslands

Savanna

Tarangire National Park in Tanzania, East Africa

Prescribed burn; Wisconsin bur oak savanna

Iberian pigs feeding on acorns of an holm oak

Acacia savanna, Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya.

Mediterranean savanna in the Alentejo region, Portugal

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

Forb

Herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid .

The term is used in biology and in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands and understory.

Poaceae

Large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.

Inflorecence scheme and floral diagram. 1 – glume, 2 – lemma, 3 – awn, 4 – palea, 5 – lodicules, 6 – stamens, 7 – ovary, 8 – styles.

Wind-blown grass in the Valles Caldera in New Mexico, United States

The gray area is the cricket pitch currently in use. Parallel to it are other pitches in various states of preparation which could be used in other matches.

Leaves of Poa trivialis showing the ligules

Bamboo stem and leaves, nodes are evident

Illustration depicting both staminate and pistillate flowers of maize (Zea mays)

A grass flower head (meadow foxtail) showing the plain-coloured flowers with large anthers.

Anthers detached from a meadow foxtail flower

It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture.

American bison

Species of bison native to North America.

Adult male (hindmost) and adult female (foremost), in Yellowstone National Park

Male plains bison in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma

Plains bison galloping, photos by Eadweard Muybridge, first published in 1887 in Animal Locomotion

Bison herd grazing at the Bison Range in Montana

Bison fighting in Grand Teton National Park in Moose, Wyoming

Wood bison reintroduction program in Sakha Republic.

A herd of American bison grazing at Tall Grass Prairie Preserve in Osage County, Oklahoma

A cow suckling calf at the Cologne Zoological Garden in Cologne, Germany

A bison wallowing on dirt near Lamar River Canyon

American bison standing its ground against a wolf pack

A grizzly bear feeding on carcass of American bison

Tourists approach dangerously close to a wild herd of American bison to take a photograph in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Map from 1889 by William Temple Hornaday, illustrating his book, The Extermination of the American Bison

A wood bison around Coal River in Canada

Big Medicine (1933–1959) was a sacred white buffalo that lived on the Bison Range (permanent display at the Montana Historical Society)

Bison being chased off a cliff as "seen" and painted by Alfred Jacob Miller

Ulm Pishkun. Buffalo jump, SW of Great Falls, Montana. The Blackfoot drove bison over cliffs in the autumn to secure the winter supply. The Blackfoot used pishkuns as late as the 1850s.<ref>Ewers, John C. (1988): "The last Bison Drive of the Blackfoot Indians". Indian Life On The Upper Missouri. Norman and London, pp. 157–168</ref>

Bison hunt under the wolf-skin mask, 1832–33

Original distribution of plains bison and wood bison in North America along the "great bison belt". Holocene bison (Bison occidentalis) is an earlier species at the origin of plains bison and wood bison. {{leftlegend|#DEAA87|Holocene bison}}{{leftlegend|#C87137|Wood bison}}{{leftlegend|#784421|Plains bison}}

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Distribution of public herds of plains bison and of free-ranging or captive breeding wood bison in North America as of 2003.{{leftlegend|#C87137|Wood bison}}{{leftlegend|#784421|Plains bison}}

Skin effigy of a Buffalo used in the Lakota Sun Dance

Manitoba uses a bison in its provincial flag, as seen inside the Manitoban coat of arms

The 1935 Buffalo nickel—this style of coin featuring an American bison was produced from 1913 to 1938

Series 1901 $10 legal tender depicting military explorers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and an American bison

First postage stamp with image of bison was issued US in 1898—4¢ "Indian Hunting Buffalo", part of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition commemorative series

Its historical range, by 9000 BC, is described as the great bison belt, a tract of rich grassland that ran from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico, east to the Atlantic Seaboard (nearly to the Atlantic tidewater in some areas) as far north as New York, south to Georgia and, according to some sources, further south to Florida, with sightings in North Carolina near Buffalo Ford on the Catawba River as late as 1750.