Grasses of South Texas

A Guide to Identification and Value

By James H. Everitt, D. Lynn Drawe, Christopher Little

2011

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Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest

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By Shirley A. Powell, Nasario García, Mark J. Stegmaier, and more

The vast rangelands of south Texas―that portion of the state lying south of San Antonio and extending west and south to the Rio Grande and east to the Gulf of Mexico―are home to many species of grasses, some beneficial and some noxious. Careful identification is important for ranch and farm management, conservation, and scientific study. This field guide catalogs 250 taxa, representing 9 subfamilies, 15 tribes, and 88 genera. Detailed descriptions, accompanied by color photographs, cover 175 native species and 75 that were introduced―exotic invaders that took hold as agricultural practices, urban development, road construction, and other perturbations eliminated extensive areas of native vegetation. High-resolution photographic scans of pressed field samples show detailed characteristics necessary for identification. Included for each species are common and scientific names and their importance to livestock, wildlife, and man. Detailed keys are provided for the genera and species covered. Although the guide covers grasses that occur in a 31-county area, the extensive ranges of many represented species also make Grasses of South Texas a useful reference for other areas of the state, the American Southwest and the Great Plains, and northern Mexico.

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* Author of Shooting the Breeze: Memories of a Photojournalist, November, 2024. Available on Amazon. * Author of Ever So Silent: An Emma Thorne Mystery, Honeysuckle Publishing, May, 2019. * Freelance Photojournalist. Little’s photographs have been published in most major magazines and newspapers including People, Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Men’s Journal, Esquire, GQ, Forbes, Money, Business Week, Self, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Progressive Architecture, House Beautiful, House & Garden, TV Guide, Family Circle, Cosmopolitan, McCalls, Town & Country, The New York Times Magazine, Cruising World, National Geographic World, Stern, Bunte, Paris Match. * Photographer of over 300 magazine and book covers. * Selected Books: * Photographer of Fallingwater. Rizzoli Classics, 2016. Edited by Lynda Waggoner. From Bookcritics.com: “I must comment specifically on the photography. Christopher Little’s photographs capture this work in views that it would take us many many visits to accumulate and he provides perspectives and details not previously shown, (or at least not shown so beautifully) views that invite us to see more deeply ... Brilliant! Masterful!” * Photographer of Atlantic High, a sailing book, with William F. Buckley, Jr. Doubleday, Fall, 1982. The New York Times Book Review Section called the book ‘‘stunning to look at.’’ It was on the Times’ bestseller list for seventeen weeks. * Photographer of Elegant New York: The Builders and The Buildings, 1885-1915, an architecture book with John Tauranac. Abbeville Press, Fall, 1985. * Principal photographer of Fallingwater with Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.—an architecture book celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright house. Abbeville Press, Fall, 1986. The Boston Globe called the book ‘‘the loveliest picture book in years.’’ The Wall Street Journal called the photographs ‘‘superb.’’ Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic of the New York Times, wrote this in the Book Review Section: "The book contains the finest photographs I have seen of this much-photographed Pennsylvania house . . . The expansive views by Christopher Little alone are sufficient to thrust Mr. Little into the front rank of contemporary architectural photographers." * Author and photographer of The Rockbound Coast—Travels in Maine, a travel memoir about a summer spent cruising the coast of Maine. W.W. Norton, July, 1994. * Education: Yale, B.A. in Psychology, 1971, The Hotchkiss School, 1967, The Buckley School, 1963. * Personal: Born 24 March 1949. Married to Elizabeth Colt Kittredge. Father of Eliza, grandfather of Charlotte.