Language
of the Land
Language of the
Land
A Coastal Prairie Lexicon
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ALFISOL
BIRDS
Alfisol - A mostly
sandy prairie soil
CAJUN
Birds - Flying, CRAWFISH
egg-laying, warm-blooded
prairie vertebrates
DECREASER
DRAGONFLIES
Cajun - A group
of French-descended people
ECOTONE
living on the prairies
of southwest Louisiana;
FIRE
Coastal prariies are known as Cajun Prairies
FORB
in Louisiana FROGS
Crawfish - Common
GILGAIcrustacean on wet
prairies. Wet prairies
GRASS were once called
Crawfish Land.GRAZERS
Decreaser - A INCREASER
plant that decreases in number
INVASIVE
when heavily eaten
by cattle.
MAMMALS
Dragonflies - Flying
MARAISpredatory insects
Ecotone - A meeting
MOTTE place of two habitat
types
PIMPLEMOUND
PLAIN
Fire - A tool used
to control the growth of trees
on prairies andPLATIN
return nutrients to the soil
POTHOLE
Forbs - Another name for flowers and other
PRAIRIE
non-woody plants
RESTORATION
Frogs - Common,
tailless amphibians on
TALLGRASS
VERTISOL
prairies
Gilgai - Small, WILDFLOWER
depressional wetlands
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Grazers - Animals, such as buffaloes, cows,
grasshoppers, and rabbits that feed on plants
Increaser - A plant that increases in number
with disturbance including heavy grazing by
cattle; a weed.
Invasive - A plant that has become a threat to
other plants because in grows in an
uncontrolled manner.
Mammals - Warm-blooded, milk producing
vertebrates
Pimple Mound - Small, sandy hills found on
some prairies
Plain - A mostly treeless, vast grassland
Platin - A small pond (French)
Prairie - A large grassland with some trees
and wetlands
Restoration - The act of returning a
landscape back to its original plant cover,
function, geology, etc.
Tallgrass - A prairie that reaches great height
in the fall (6-10’) because of it is located in an
area of heavy rainfall
Vertisol-A mostly clay prairie soil
Wildflower - Another name for a native, often
showy flower
Grass - Most common plants on prairies
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