Western Wheatgrass
Western Wheatgrass is a native, cool-season, perennial sod-forming grass. Western Wheatgrass may take several years to become established but, once it does, is very hardy, long-lived, and somewhat aggressive. It is suitable for reclamation, erosion control, pasture, and dryland hay.
Spike Trisetum
Spike Trisetum Trisetum spicatum 18″ 2 to 4 pls lbs/acre 2 – Both
Switchgrass
Switchgrass is a warm-season, native, perennial, sod-forming grass that is strongly rhizomatous. It provides good pasture for livestock and is also a great species for erosion control.
Slender Wheatgrass
Slender Wheatgrass is a native, cool-season, perennial bunch grass that can be used for grazing, hay production, and reclaiming disturbed sites. It is adapted to elevations ranging from 4,500 to 12,000 feet. Slender Wheatgrass tolerates alkalinity up to pH 8.8 and salinity up to 16 mmhos/cm.
Sideoats Grama
Sideoats Grama is a warm-season, native, perennial sod-forming grass found throughout most of the United States. It is an important range and pasture grass and also provides forage for deer, antelope, elk, and wild turkeys. It germinates and establishes quickly compared to other warm-season grasses.
Siberian Wheatgrass
Siberian Wheatgrass is an introduced, cool-season, perennial bunchgrass that is closely related to the other crested wheatgrasses. It is long-lived, drought tolerant, winter hardy, and possesses good seedling vigor and an extensive root system which makes it good for soil stabilization on disturbed sites.
Sand Dropseed
Sand Dropseed is a warm-season, native, perennial bunch grass that grows best on coarse, sandy to gravelly soils at elevations up to 8,000 feet. Young plants produce abundant forage that is palatable and nutritious for all livestock. Sand dropseed is valuable in protecting sandy soil from wind erosion.
Russian Wildrye
Russian Wildrye is a cool-season, introduced, perennial bunch grass. It is an excellent grass for dryland pastures because it has a longer growing period than most dryland grasses, and even when dried maintains a high protein content, allowing for a longer grazing season.
Pubescent Wheatgrass
Pubescent Wheatgrass is an introduced, cool-season, perennial sod-forming grass. Compared to Intermediate Wheatgrass, Pubescent Wheatgrass is more drought tolerant, more winter hardy, and will spread more by rhizomes.
Perennial Ryegrass
Perennial Ryegrass Lolium perenne 30 inches 20 to 25 bulk lbs/acre 2 – Both
Orchardgrass
Orchardgrass is an introduced, perennial, cool-season bunch grass that is primarily used for pasture and hay. but also for erosion control. It does best with irrigation or in areas receiving more than 18 inches of annual precipitation.
Little Bluestem
Little Bluestem is a native, warm-season, perennial bunch grass found throughout North America. Adapated to a wide variety of soil types, it is used in reclamation, pastures, and as a ornamental grass.
Intermediate Wheatgrass
Intermediate Wheatgrass Thinopyrum intermedium 12″ 10 to 15 PLS lbs/acre drilled 1 – Very Sunny
Indian Ricegrass
Indian Ricegrass is a native, cool-season, perennial bunch grass. It is one of the best grasses to include in mixes for preventing wind erosion on disturbed sandy soils. I ndian Ricegrass is nutritious and palatable for both livestock and big game year-round
Canada Wildrye
Canada Wildrye is a native, cool-season, perennial bunchgrass that establishes rapidly, making it a good choice for reclaiming disturbed sites. Since it is short-lived, it should be part of a mix that includes longer-lived grasses.
Buffalograss
Buffalograss is a native, warm-season, stoloniferous, sod-forming grass that makes a good low-traffic lawn. It can also help control soil erosion and is very palatable to wildlife and livestock.
Blue Wildrye
Blue Wildrye is a native, perennial, cool-season bunch grass that is used for seeding burned or otherwise disturbed forest areas and is also good for streambank restoration. Blue Wildrye prefers moist conditions but is a good competitor that can establish both on disturbed and undisturbed sites.
Crested Wheatgrass
Crested Wheatgrass is an introduced, cool season, perennial bunch grass. It a good choice for reclamation and erosion control in the semi-arid west because of its aggressive nature, tolerance to harsh conditions, and extensive root system.
Bluebunch Wheatgrass
Bluebunch Wheatgrass is a native, perennial, cool-season bunch grass. It is palatable to both livestock and wildlife and is also useful in reclamation and erosion control. Qualities include drought resistance, long lifespan, extensive root system, cold tolerance, resistance to fire, and ability to persist on thin, rocky soils.
Blue Grama
Blue Grama is a native, perennial, warm-season grass. It is highly palatable for livestock year-round. Its prolific root system makes it useful in erosion-control mixtures and as a low-maintenance turf.
Big Bluestem
Big Bluestem Andropogon gerardii 12 inches 8-16 lbs/acre 1 – Very Sunny
Basin Wildrye
Basin Wildrye is a native, cool-season, perennial bunch grass found in a variety of habitats from 2,000 to 9,800 feet elevation. It is a good species for erosion control and reclamation, because of its drought tolerance and also because it has an extensive root system that can be up 63 inches deep with a lateral spread of 39 inches.
Annual Ryegrass
Annual ryegrass is an introduced, annual, cool-season bunch grass with many uses–erosion control, cover cropping, serving as a nurse plant for grasses that are slower to establish, and as pasture.
Alkali Sacaton
Alkali Sacaton is a warm season, native, perennial bunch grass known for growing in alkaline, riparian, and dry areas. It is a common reclamation grass for dry, sunny, difficult regions.
Timothy
Timothy is a cool season, perennial bunch grass with high palatability typically used in irrigated pasture mixes.
Bottlebrush Squirreltail
Bottlebrush Squirreltail is a very drought tolerant, cool season, native, perennial bunchgrass that plays a big role in reclamation work and native revegetation.
Reed Canarygrass
Reed Canarygrass is a vigorous, introduced, sodforming, perennial cool season grass. In the arid Southwest it tends thrive only in lowlands and areas where water collects so it is useful in waterlogged field bottoms etc.
Redtop
Redtop is an introduced, perennial, sodforming grass that germinates quickly and is used at higher elevations and in riparian settings.
Letterman’s Needlegrass
Letterman’s needlegrass is a native, cool season, perennial bunch grass found at higher elevations (5,000′ up to 12,500′) that is important for revegetation work and is useful for wildlife and livestock but not typically planted as a part of forage efforts due to its long stiff awn when the seeds mature.
Needle & Thread Grass
Needle & Thread Grass is a native, cool season, perennial, exceedingly drought tolerant grass.
Muttongrass
Muttongrass is an exceptionally drought tolerant, native, long-lived, bunch grass used for reclamation and restoration. It is highly palatable to most animals but can be hard to establish.
Prairie Junegrass
Prairie Junegrass is a native, moderately long-lived, cool season, perennial, bunchgrass that can be used for reclamation, parks, and forage.
Tufted Hairgrass
Tufted Hairgrass is found throughout the world and is a native to the US. It is a cool season, native bunchgrass that can thrive in most moist environments especially high elevation plantings in the Southwestern US.
Green Needlegrass
Green Needlegrass is a perennial, cool season, native bunchgrass that typically performs well on fertile heavy soils like silty deposits, and bottomland.
Sandberg Bluegrass
Sandberg bluegrass is a native cool season bunch grass that is used for reclamation, natural grazing and erosion control.
Kentucky Bluegrass – Forage type
Kentucky Bluegrass is an introduced, dense sodforming, perennial grass found throughout the United States.
Canby Bluegrass
Canby Bluegrass is one of the many native bluegrasses that provide valuable understory grass coverage and early spring grazing/greenup properties for grazing, erosion control and revegetation.
Alpine Bluegrass
Alpine Bluegrass is a cool season, high altitude, native, bunchgrass that gets used for reclamation and erosion control. Alpine Bluegrass is a native alpine/sub-alpine grass important for reclamation and native plantings.
Alkali Grass
Alkali grass is a cool season, sod-forming introduced grass species. It is frequently used for roadsides and turf applications.
Thurber Fescue
Thurber Fescue is a tall growing, native, cool season bunchgrass adapted to higher elevations. It is a useful reclamation species.
Tall Fescue Pasture
Tall Fescue is an introduced, bunching, cool season, forage/pasture grass.
Sheep Fescue
Sheep Fescue is a low growing, cool season, introduced bunch grass that has many uses including; drought tolerant turfs, erosion control around buildings, airports etc. and in orchards for ground cover.
Rocky Mountain Fescue
Rocky Mountain Fescue is a cool season, native bunch grass typically found at higher elevations and is very palatable for livestock. This species is a good erosion control, reclamation species for higher altitude areas.
Idaho Fescue
Idaho Fescue is a native, cool season, bunch grass adapted to areas of relatively low moisture. It is a hardy native forage for livestock and wildlife
Hard Fescue
Hard Fescue is an introduced, cool season bunch grass suitable for low maintenance, low moisture areas and drought tolerant turfs.
Arizona Fescue
Arizona Fescue is a native, drought tolerant, perennial found in the higher elevations (6,000 – 10,000) feet of the Southwestern United States. It has a tough, fibrous bunch type, root system that can withstand dry periods making it useful for soil stabilization and reclamation in dryer climates.
Smooth Brome
Smooth Brome is an introduced, cool season, sod forming, pasture grass. It is very palatable and nutritious and is a common item in pastures and erosion control efforts.
Nodding Brome
Nodding Brome is an attractive native, cool season perennial bunch grass. It is found in the 6,500 – 11,000 altitude range.
Mountain Brome
Mountain Brome is a native, cool season, perennial bunch grass used extensively in reclamation work It is a pioneer species that is highly desirable for wildlife and livestock.
Meadow Brome
Meadow Brome is a very common perennial grass used extensively for pasture and hay. It is a cool season grass with strong seedling vigor and excellent regrowth after mowing. It is extremely winter hardyIt is long lived and highly nutritious and palatable for all classes of animals.
Fringed Brome
Fringed Brome Bromus ciliatus +30″ 15 – 18 pls lbs/ac 2 – Both
Canada Bluegrass
Canada Bluegrass is an introduced, perennial, rhizomatious grass. It is used for drought tolerant lawns and where erosion control is important.
Big Bluegrass
Big Bluegrass is a tall, native bunchgrass, commonly used in reclamation mixes. It greens up very early in the spring providing important forage for cattle and wildlife.
Creeping Foxtail
Frequently used as pasture grass on wet meadows. Its rhizomatous, sod forming abilities and its ability to function in poor soils that may be more acidic or alkaline makes it very useful for wet areas.
