58 BULLETIN 545, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 2. — Soil moisture requirements of native forage plants. 



Name of plant. 



Local. 



High huckleberry 



Mountain onion 



Slender reed-grass 



Tall meadow-grass 



Tall swamp sedge 



Black hair-grass 



False hellebore 



Fireweed 



Fire willow 



Porcupine grass 



Rush 



Rush 



Small wild onion 



Smooth wild rye 



Tufted hair-grass 



"Wild celery 



Wild onion 



Wood rush 



Butterweed 



Coneflower 



Marsh pine grass 



Mountain timothy 



Sheep sedge 



Big bunch grass 



Blue bunch grass 



Elk grass 



Geranium 



Horsemint 



Little bluegrass 



Little needle grass 



Mountain bunch grass. . . 



Mountain dandelion 



Mountain June grass 



Mountain wheat grass. . . 



Onion grass 



Pine grass 



Red bunch grass 



Rush 



Rush 



Soft cheat 



Spiked trisetum 



Short-awned bromegrass 



Tall bluegrass 



White foxtail 



Woolly weed 



Yarrow 



Alpine redtop 



Blue beardtongue 



S kunkweed 



P lender hair-grass 



Wild buckwheat 



Valerian 



Scientific. 



Vaccinium membranaccum 



A Ilium validum 



Cinna latifolia 



Panicularia ncrvata 



Carex exsiccata 



Dcschampsia atropurpurea 



Veratrum viride 



Chamaencrion angustifolium . . 



Salix scouleriana 



Stipa occidcntalis 



Juncus mcrtensianus 



Juncus orthophyllus 



Allium fibril/urn 



Elymus glaums 



Dcschampsia caespitosa 



Ligustkum oreganum 



A Ilium platyphullum 



Juneoides parviflorum 



Senecio triangularis 



Fudbeckia occidcntalis 



Calamagrostis canadensis 



Phlcum alpinum 



Carex illota 



A gropyron spicatum 



Fcstuca idahoensis 



Carex geyeri 



Geranium viseosissimum 



A gastache urticifolia 



Poa sandbergii 



Stipa minor 



Fcstuca viridula 



A goseris glauca 



Koeleria cristata 



A gropyron violaccum 



Mclica bella 



Calamagrostis suksdor fit 



A gropyron flexuosum 



Juncus confusus 



Juncus parryi 



Bromus hordeaceus 



Trisetum spicatum 



Bromus marginatus 



Poa brachyglossa 



Sitanion velutinum 



Heracium cynoglossoidcs 



A chillca lanulosa 



Agrostis rossae 



Pcntstemon procerus 



Polcmonium pulcherrimum . . . 



Dcschampsia elongata 



Polygonum phytolaccaefolium . 

 Valeriana sitchcnsis 



Soil-water 



content at 



time of 



excessive 

 wilting. 



Per cent. 



14. 0-16. 

 13. 5-16. 

 12. 0-14. 

 22. 5-24. 

 12. 5-14. 

 11.0-14. 

 8. 2-11. 



7. 5- 9. 

 11.5-14. 

 8.0- 9. 



10. 0-12. 

 11. 5-14. 

 16. 0-18. 

 11.0-14. 



14. 



14. 

 5.5- 7. 



6.5 



6. 5- 7. 

 9.2-11. 

 9. 5 -7. 

 8. 0-10. 

 10.0-13. 

 6.0-7. 

 6. 3- 8. 

 5.5- 8. 



5. 5- 7. 



5. 



7. 5- 9. 



5. 5- 8. 



6.0- 8. 

 8. 0-10. 

 10. 0-12. 

 7. 0- 8. 

 8. 0-10. 

 7. 0-10. 

 8. 5-15. 

 8. 0-10. 

 7. 0- 8. 



Class. 



A 

 and 

 B. 



C. 



B 

 and 

 C. 



