Mixed grass prairie

Mixed grass prairie around the Afterbay near Fort Smith, Montana

Mixed grass prairie in relation to the Great Plains

  Shortgrass prairie

  Mixed grass prairie

  Tallgrass prairie

A mixed-grass prairie is an ecotone located between the tallgrass prairies and shortgrass prairies. The mixed-grass prairie is richer in ecological diversity than either the tall- or shortgrass prairie. The mixed-grass prairie occurs in the central portion of the Great Plains, varying in width from central Texas in the United States up into southeastern Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada.^[1]

References

1. G. E. Wickens: Ecophysiology of economic plants in arid and semi-arid lands p.76