seacoast bluestem

noun

: a bluestem (Andropogon littoralis) of beaches and dunes of eastern North America that is very similar to and often considered a variety of the little bluestem and that is locally valued as a palatable forage grass and as an arrester of wind erosion of sandy soil

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