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Cool Season Grasses

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Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas: A Field Guide

By Michael John Haddock.
March, 2005. 374 pages, 325 color photographs,
18 drawings, paperback.
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Annual Ryegrass, Bulk Pound

Annual Ryegrass is primarily used for pastures and quick cover. It has numerous long, narrow, stiff leaves near the base and the under surface leav...

Meadow Bromegrass (Bromus biebersteinii), PLS Pound

Meadow bromegrass is a long lived perennial which produces short, stout thizomes 4 to 6 inches long....

Smooth Bromegrass (Bromus inermis), PLS Pound

Smooth bromegrass is an important forage grass.

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Canada Bluejoint Grass (Calamagrostis canadensis), PLS Pound

Bluejoint is a long lived perennial cool seaon grass with stout stems that grow 60 to 180 cm tall. Thre are 3 to 8 prominent joints along the stem....

Cool Season Pasture Mix I, 2 Acre Bag

This mixture of cool season grasses is designed for adaptation across the entire High Plains region.  It will provide maximum production for b...

Cool Season Pasture Mix II, 2 Acre Bag

The irrigated pasture blend of Smooth Brome, Meadow Brome, Orchard Grass and Garrison Creeping Foxtail.

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Cool Season Pasture Mix III, 2 Acre Bag

The irrigated pasture blend of Intermediate Wheat grass.

Good mix for early spring and late fall forage production. Do not mix with other c...

Creeping Red Fescue (Festuca rubra L. ssp. arenaria), PLS Pound

Red Fescue, is a cool season, sod-forming grass introduced from Europe. Leaves of Red Fescue are bright green, wiry, and narrow.

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Fowl Manna Grass (Glyceria striata), PLS Pound

Fowl Manna Grass is a perennial grass is 2-3 1/2 tall. The blooming period occurs from early to mid summer....

Fult Salt (Alkali) Grass (Puccinellia distans), PLS Pound

Image: Robert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species...

Garrison Creeping Foxtail (Alopecurus arundinaceus poir), PLS Pound

Garrison Creeping Foxtail is a long-lived, sod-forming grass. It resembles common Meadow Foxtail, but has more vigorous rhizomes and broader leaves...

Green Needle (Stipe viridule), PLS Pound

Green Needle grass is a cool-season native perennial bunchgrass. This grass is an important native of the Northern Great Plains, and is found as fa...

Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis), PLS Pound

Kentucky Bluegrass is a cool-season perennial sod-forming grass. Flowering starts in May and fruit is mature by mid-June....

Needle & Thread (Stipa comata), PLS Pound

Needle and Thread begins growth early in the spring and goes dormant in early to mid summer. It has good forage value for livestock before fruiting...

Needle Grass (Stipa spartea), PLS Pound

Needle Grass seeds are 1/2 to 3/4 inches long with a sharp point an a long 4" awn with the lower half twisted and the upper half bent at an angle.&...

Orchard Grass (Dectylis glomerata), PLS Pound

Potomac Orchardgrass is used extensively in the High Plains regions of the Great Plains. It is very leafy and erect. This variety produces con...

Perennial Ryegrass, Bulk Pound

Perennial Ryegrass grows from 1 to 2 feet tall with a bunchy form, and has medium longevity. Some turn varieties are longer lived....

Prairie June Grass (Koeleria pyramidta), PLS Pound

Prairie Junegrass is a perennial cool season bunchgrass. It greens up early in the spring and provides good early spring forage and fair late sprin...

Prairie Sandreed (Calamotivita longifolia), PLS Pound

Prairie Sandreed is a tall-growing, warm-season perennial grass. It grows between 2 and 5 feet in height. It is a sod-forming grass.

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Red Top (Argostis gigantean), PLS Pound

Red Top is a cool-season grass, that forms a dense turf. Its leaves are narrow and sharp. It has stems that stand from 30 to 40 inches tall.

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Reeds Canary (Phalaris arundinaces), PLS Pound

Reed Canarygrass is a large, moderately coarse, cool-season plant. It is a sod-forming grass that grows a thick culm from 3 to 6 feet tall that ris...

Timothy (Phleum pratense), PLS Pound

Timothy is a small-tufted, short-lived cool-season grass. It stands with erect culms.

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Crested Wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum), PLS Pound

Crested Wheatgrass is a long-lived annual cool season bunchgrass. In areas of more moisture they are nearly sod like. They grow with culms that are...

Intermediate Wheatgrass (Agropyron intermedium), PLS Pound

Intermediate Wheatgrass is a cool-season, open sod-former. It grows with erect culms reaching 2 to 4 feet high in clumps.

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Pubescent Wheatgrass (Agropyron intermedium var. trichophorum), PLS Pound

Pubescent Wheatgrass is a long-lived, cool-season perennial grass. It is a sod-former and spread by underground roots.

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Slender Wheatgrass ( Agropyron trachycaulum), PLS Pound

Slender Wheatgrass is a short-lived, cool-season perennial. It is a bunchgrass.

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Tall Wheatgrass (Agropyron elongotum), PLS Pound

Tall Wheatgrass is a coarse, cool-season bunchgrass. It is tall and can grow up to 7 feet when irrigated.

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Western Wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii), PLS Pound

Western Wheatgrass is a native, long-lived, cool-season sod former. It grows erect and rigid with plants from 1 to 3 feet tall.

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Canada Wildrye (Elymus canadensis), PLS Pound

Canada Wildrye is a cool-season, native bunchgrass that prefers moist sites. It is easy to establish and is great for early spring ground cover.

Riverbank Wildrye (Elymus riparius), PLS Pound

Riverbank Wildrye it is used for soil conservation in wet meadows and along pond banks. It has good seedling vigor and some shade tolerance but per...

Russian Wildrye (Elymus junceus), PLS Pound

Russian Wildrye is a long-lived, cool-season bunchgrass. It resembles Crested Wheatgrass.

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Virginia Wildrye (Elymus virgincus), PLS Pound

Virginia Wildrye is a native, cool-season, perennial bunchgrass which grows two to three feet in height. It reproduces by tillering and seed....