ARTIFICIAL EESEEDIKG ON" WESTERN" MOUNTAIN RANGE LANDS 45 



purposes, pending restocking with tree reproduction as on Douglas 

 fir lands in the Pacific Northwest, provided the seeding and grazing 

 do not interfere with the establishment of tree reproduction. Seed- 

 ing areas where poisonous plants have been eradicated by grubbing 

 is often justified. 



Thus far work in artificial reseeding on range lands has been 

 confined largely to cultivated species and a few native western 

 range plants. There are still many undeveloped possibilities such 

 as further trials with native range plants, the search in foreign 

 countries for plants suited to western range conditions, and the 

 development of more suitable forms by plant breeding and selec- 

 tion. The success with the few native western species tried, the 

 successful introduction into the United States of many foreign 

 species for other purposes, and breeding up of cereals and other 

 crop plants suggest that promising results will be attained as more 

 attention is devoted to range forage plants. 



CHECK LIST OF COMMON AND SCIENTIFIC NAMES USED 



Common name Scientific name 



Western yarrow Achillea lanulosa 



Monkshood __. Acomium spp. 



Bearded wheatgrass Agropyron caninum 



Crested wheatgrass Agropyron cristatum 



Thickspike wheatgrass Agropyron dasystachyum 



Quack grass Agropyron repent 



Streambank wheatgrass Agropyron riparmni 



Bluestem . Agropyron smitMi 



Blue-bunch wheatgrass Agropyron spicatum 



Slender wheatgrass Agropyron tenerum 



Violet wheatgrass Agropyron violaceum 



Redtop Agrostis palustris 



Carpet bent Agrostis stolonifera 



Tufted hair grass Aira caespitosa 



Meadow foxtail Alopecurus pratensis 



Sudan grass Andropogon sorghum sudanensis 



Tall oatgrass Arrhenatherum elatius 



Sweet sagebrush Artemisia^ incompta 



Australian saltbush Atriplex semihaccata 



Wild oat Avena fatua 



Beardless pine grass Blepharoneuron tricholepis 



Side oats grama Bouteloua curtipendula 



Blue grama Bouteloua gracilis 



Keeled bromegrass Bronius carinatus 



Common bromegrass Bromus inermis 



Big mountain bromegrass Bromus marginatus, and close allies. 



Polyanthus bromegrass Bromus polyanthus 



Porter bromegrass Bromus porteri 



Narrowleaf bromegrass Bromus subvelutinus 



Downy chess Bromus tectortcm^ 



Rescue grass Bromus unioloides 



Bermuda grass Capriola dactylon 



Lanceleaf rabbit brush Chrysotliamnus lanceolatus 



Orchard grass Dactylis glomerata 



Larkspur Delphinium spp. 



Deer grass Epicampes rigens 



Alfileria Erodium cicutarium 



Arizona fescue Festuca arizonica 



Alpine fescue Festuca 'brachypliylla 



Tall fescue ^^^^^-^^^ Festuca elatior (N. B. Meadow fes- 

 cue is the form of this species 

 known as '' F. pratensis'') 



