Look up Buffalograss (buchloe dactyloides). I wanted to use it on the slopes on my property but the price is horrific.
Used to cover the plains, might not take a lot of traffic.
I bought a pound of buffalo grass this summer. I luckily didn’t plant it. The drought would have doomed it I’m sure.
I plan on starting it and letting it go to seed and propagating more from that. It helps that I don’t live in a city and there is no one to give me a hard time about not mowing it.