The sellers generally tell you which variety does best in a certain region ... high plains, or wherever.

Of the older turf varieties, Texoka was bred from selections in RX and OK, Cody was more of a high plains parentage, Bowie ... I don't know about.

Bowie/Cody mix is recommended for general use, but check some of the newer varieties being releases. Sundancer looks good: greener, shorter winter dormancy, but still a tough grass.

Establishing buffalo grass is “front-end loaded”: most of your work is up-front in a properly designed program. Heavy irrigation, fertility and weeding during establishment phase and then you can relax.

Here's some info:

http://turf.okstate.edu/uploaded_files/Buffalograss20131010.pdf

https://www.johnstonseed.com/buffalograss

https://www.johnstonseed.com/sundancer-buffalograss

If you see "Primed" seed ... it's been treated with potassium nitrate to make it sprout faster and more evenly.

You don't have to ever worry about it as long as you don't mind having seed heads sticking up all the time. Otherwise you have to mow it weekly just like every other lawn grass. As far as I know all the seeded varieties are not well behaved as lawn grasses. They send up seed heads and flowers quick and tall making the lawn look shaggy in a week or so. Having said that I do not keep up with the most recent varieties. Buffalo growing in the wild is full of weeds. I have some in my lawn where the St Augustine has not quite reached in to kill it out.

Sadly the Turffalo company stopped selling their signature Turffalo variety of buffalo sod. It had the excellent characteristic of sending up the seed heads slowly instead of quickly like most other varieties. That means it never looked shaggy. You might look into the UC Verde variety. I've never seen it as most of it is sold in California. It might be a sod only variety. Turffalo also spread fast and grew extremely dense compared to almost any other grass. Buffalo is known for being sparse thus allowing lots of weeds in, but Turffalo really was much different. It was more of a mutant than a hybrid. Here's a picture.

You can see just about every good feature in that picture. That was 3 weeks without mowing and the seed heads are still the same height as the grass. You can also see how dense it is and how it is escaping across the concrete trying to spread. You can also see that the color is not the same sort of deep green you see in other grasses.

You might look into some prairie grasses like blue grama and the wheatgrasses. Those also send up seed heads but apparently much more slowly giving you about a month to go between mowings. Your county extension service should know which of the wheatgrasses would do best in your area.

Thanks for the great info!!! Man I forgot all about Turffalo, but didn't realize that they quit selling it.

You can call them, but as of a year ago they said they had to stop selling it. Their growers were not making enough money on it, and it was already expensive at $75 a flat.

After some online reading I think I'm going to give the Sundance a try. I have a small 20x14 area I plan on testing it in

UC Verde is plugs only, and a heat lover. I had it in Phoenix and it was lovely.

Here (NM) I'm growing Cody mixed with blue grama, from Western Native Seed. It's sprouting well, but slowly. I could have, should have done it a bit differently, but it's all blog fodder and you can learn from my mistakes.

http://lazygardens.blogspot.com/2017/02/watching-grass-grow-return-of-buffalo.html