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1 sacaton
Bentley: 1863.A southwestern plant ( Sporobolus wrightii) sometimes used as forage. The OED indicates that the term refers to various species of the genera Sporobolus and Epicampes. Santamaria glosses it as the common name of various wild grasses, including Muelembergia disticophylla and S. wrightii, used for making an industrial fiber. It generally grows in long, rigid rootstalks with leaves. In southeastern Mexico it is the primary vegetation on the plains or savannahs, where it grows as a shrub or in isolated groups of trees.Also called pajón (Mexico), bear grass (USA), it is commonly used as forage for cattle.Alternate forms: sacate, sacatone, zacaton. -
2 aparejo grass
Western Texas: 1894. A variety of grass in the Southwest, either Sporobolus depauperatus or Muhlenbergia utilis according to Clark, used to stuff aparejos, or packsaddles.
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