54 CIRCULAR 491, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



APPENDIX 



Table 1. — List of grasses, other forage crops, and pasture shrubs mentioned or 

 described in this circular 



Locally recognized common 

 name 



Accredited common name with 

 other synonyms in parentheses 



Genus and species 



Alfalfa 



Annual broomweed. 



Bermuda grass _ 

 Big bluestem.. 



Black grama 



Black sagebrush. 



Blowout grass. 

 Blue grama.... 



Bromegrass. 



Buffaio grass 



Canada wild-rye . 

 Chamiza 



Clover. 



Crested wheatgrass. 

 Curly-mesquite 



Galleta grass.. _ 

 Giant reedgrass. 



Hairy grama 



Indian grass 



Indian ricegrass. 



Italian ryegrass 



Jaragua 



Kentucky bluegrass. 



Lehmann lovegrass. 

 Little bluestem 



Manyspine prickly-pear. 

 Meadow fescue 



Mesquitebean 



Needlegrasses 



Orchard grass 



Perennial ryegrass. 



Plains bristlegrass. 



Quackgrass 



Red three-awn 



Redtop... 

 Ringgrass. 



Rough rush grass. 



Sand bluestem 



Sand dropseed — 



Sand lovegrass.. 

 Sand paspalum. 

 Sand reedgrass. 



Sand sagebrush... 

 Silver beardgrass. 

 Silver sagebrush.. 

 Side-oats grama. . 



Alfalfa 



Snakeweed. 



Bermuda grass 



Bluejoint turkeyfoot (big blue- 

 stem). 



Black grama (woolly-foot grama) . . 



Big sagebrush (black sage or blue 

 sage, and simply sage or sage- 

 brush) . 



Blowout grass 



Blue grama (white, red, or purple 

 grama) . 



Smooth brome (common brome, 

 Hungarian brome, awnless 

 brome, field brome, Australian 

 brome, and Russian brome) . 



Buffalo grass ■ 



C anada wild-rye 



Fourwing saltbush (chamise, 

 chamiso) . 



Clover (trefoil) 



Crested wheatgrass 



Curly-mesquite (southwestern 

 buffalo grass) . 



Galleta (black grama) 



Giant reedgrass. .. 



Hairy grama 



Indian grass 



Indian ricegrass (sandgrass) . 



Italian ryegrass 



Jaragua 



Kentucky bluegrass (lawngrass, 

 speargrass, junegrass, green- 

 sward (meadow grass in Eng- 

 land)). 



Prairie'beardgrass (little bluestem, 

 broom beardgrass, broomsedge, 

 and small feathergrass). 



Many-spined opuntia. .. 



Meadow fescue (English blue- 

 grass). 



Mesquite 



Needlegrasses 



Orchard grass 



Perennial ryegrass (English rye- 

 grass) . 

 Plains bristlegrass (perennial fox- 

 tail). 

 Quackgrass (couch grass and 



quitch grass) . 

 Red three-awn (triple-awn dog- 

 town grass, long-awned needle- 

 grass, prairie three-awn, long- 

 needle three-awn, and wire 

 needlegrass) . 



Redtop 



Ringgrass (Ringmuhly), and 

 ticklegrass. 



Rough rush grass 



Turkeyfoot (sand bluestem) 



Sand dropseed 



Medicago satira. 



Gutierrezia dracunculoides (DC.) 



Blake. 

 Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. 

 Andropogon furcatus Muhl. 



Bouteloua eriopoda (Torr.) Torr. 

 Artemisia trideniata Nutt. 



Redfieldia flexuosa (Thurb.) Vasey. 

 Bouteloua gracilis (H. B. K.) Lag. 



Bromus inermis Leyss. 



Buchloe daclyloides (Nutt.) Engelm. 



Ely m us canadensis L. 



Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt. 



Trifolium sp. 



Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn. 

 Hilana belangeri (Steud.) Nash. 



Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth. 

 Calamovilfa gigantea (Nutt.) Scribn. 



and Merr. 

 Bouteloua hirsuta Lag. 

 Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash. 

 Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. and 



Schult.) Ricker. 

 Lolium multiflorum Lam. 

 Uyparrhenia rufa (Nees) Stapf. 

 Poa pratensisL,. 



Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees. 

 Andropogon scoparius Michx. 



Opuntia polyacantha Haw. 

 Festuca elatior L. 



Prosopis spp. 

 Stipa spp. 



Dactylis glomerata L. 

 Lolium perenne L. 



Setaria macrostachya H. B. K. 



Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv. 



Aristida longiseta Steud. 1 



1 Aristida longieseta and A. 

 of red three-awn (triple-awn), 

 i elated species. 



Agrostis alba L. 



Muhlenbergia torreyi (Kunth) 



Hitchc. 

 Sporobolus asper (Michx.) Kunth. 

 Andropogon hallii Hack. 

 Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) A. 



Gray. 

 Eragrostis trichodes (Nutt.) Nash. 

 Paspalum stramineum Nash. 

 Calamovilfa longifolia (Hook.) 



Scribn. 

 Artemisia ftlifolia Torr. 

 Andropogon saccharoides Swartz. 

 Artemisia cana Pursh. 

 Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) 



Torr. 



purpurea Nutt, are both considered when mention is made 

 no attempt being made to distinguish between these closely 



Prairie sandgrass (long-leaved 

 reedgrass and sandreed). 



Sand sagebrush 



Silver beardgrass 



Hoary sagebrush 



Side-oats grama (tall grama) 



