Tall Wheatgrass 



Tall wheatgrass is a coarse, nonlodging bunchgrass that is adapted to 

 all parts of the wheatgrass area and to a wide variety of soil conditions. It 

 produces high yields on subirrigated alkaline soils and is very tolerant of 

 salt. It provides green feed in summers and for fall grazing since it matures 

 late in the season. It is fairly palatable and provides hay of fair quality if 

 cut before it blooms. It is also used for conservation and erosion control 

 on abandoned, wind-eroded sites. The grass has yielded favorably on sage- 

 brush and mountain lands in Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada; it has been 

 rated from poor to good in the ponderosa pine area in Colorado and in 

 northern New Mexico and Arizona; it has not yielded satisfactorily on 

 Wyoming's dry sagebrush and salt desert shrub range. Seed does not 

 mature at high elevations. 



WILD-RYE 



The wild-rye grasses are grown principally in the Western States. 

 They are adapted to a wide range of soil types, are relatively easy to estab- 

 lish, and are useful for pasture and conservation. 



Canada Wild-rye 



Canada wild -rye is a bunchgrass abundant in parts of western North 

 Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and all States to the west. It is adapted to 

 a wide range of soil types but is most productive on fertile loams. Seed- 

 lings quickly form a good protective cover, but they begin growing about a 

 week later in the springthan crested wheatgrass. This grass is more likely 

 to continue growing during the summer than wheatgrass, but it will stop 

 during a drought and then resume in the fall. 



Russian Wild- rye 



Russian wild-rye is a bunchgrass adapted to the drier sites of the 

 same States in which Canada wild -rye is grown, and is similar in adaptation 

 to soil types. Russian wild-rye provides spring and summer grazing and 

 remains palatable during its entire grazing period. Although forage yields 

 are low, on soils of low fertility the gains made by livestock on the grass 

 are generally high. When nitrogen and irrigation are supplied, yields are 

 quite large. In either case the forage is high in quality. It is a salt-tolerant 

 grass but a poor seed producer. 



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