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

 described in this circular — Continued 



Locally recognized common 

 name 



Accredited common name with 

 other synonyms in parentheses 



Genus and species 



Skunkbrush 



Skunkbush (squawberry, squaw- 

 bush, skunkbrush, lemita, lem- 

 onade sumac, polecat bush, 

 shoneehaw, and three-lobed 

 sumac; also ill-scented sumac). 



Rhus trilobata Nutt. 

 Sorghum vulgare Pers. 







Sorghum vulgare var. sudanense 





Sweetclover _ . . 



(Piper) Hitchc. 

 Melilotus spp. 











Texas bluegrass (plains bluegrass) . 

 Timothy 



Poa arachnifera Torr. 



Timothy 



Phleum pratense L. 





Broom snakeweed (perennial 

 broomweed, broomweed, match- 

 weed, turpentine-weed, and yel- 

 low top). 



Vine-mesquite (grapevine-mes- 



vine grass, and wire grass) . 



Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. 





and Rusby. 

 Panicum obtusum H. B. K. 



Virginia wild-rye 







Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees. 









Western wheatgrass 



Bluestem (bluejoint, Colorado 

 bluestem, Smith blue-joint, west- 

 ern wheatgrass) . 



Agropyron smithii Rydb. 







Agropyron pungens (Pers.) Roem. 







and Schult. 















