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Warm 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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Alkali Sacaton (Sporobolus airoides), PLS Pound

Alkali Sacaton is a warm season grass of medium height. It is long-lived. It grows in large coarse bunches with culms from 1 to 3 feet tall.

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Big Bluestem (Andropogon geradii), PLS Pound

Big Bluestem is a warm season, bunch sod-former. It is a tall grass that is long-lived. It has culms that stand from 3 to 6 ft. tall.

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Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis), PLS Pound

Blue Grama is a warm season sod-forming shortgrass. Bunch growth occurs in the South. It is a long-lived grass.

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Deer Tongue Grass (Panicum clanestinum), PLS Pound

A warm season bunchgrass that has a fibrous root system and grows from 1 ft. to 3 ft. tall. Blooms from May to September. Broad, short leaves.

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Eastern Gama (Tripsacum dactyioides), PLS Pound

This grass is palatable and very nutritious for livestock. Cattle relish this grass and can eliminate it through overgrazing. Birds and small mamma...

Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans), PLS Pound

Indiangrass is a warm-season tall grass. It is a bunching sod-former that grows from 3 to 5 feet tall in leafy clumps. It isn’t normally foun...

Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparius), PLS Pound

Little bluestem is a warm-season, medium-sized, leafy bunchgrass. It normally grows from 2 to 4 feet in height and produces small fluffy seeds.

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Prairie Cordgrass (Spartina pectinata), PLS Pound

Prairie cordgrass is a warm-season perennial grass. It is native to the tall grass prairies of most of the United States and Canada.

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Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis), PLS Pound

Prairie Dropseed is a native American prairie plant. It produces a magnificent fountain of fine-textured emerald green leaves.

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Rice Cut Grass (Leersia hexandra), PLS Pound

This is a wetland type perennial grass often found in swamps, around ponds, wet meadows and roadside ditches.

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Rough Dropseed (Sporobolus clandestinus), PLS Pound

The name “Dropseed” alludes to the grain falling readily. Tall Dropseed has only fair forage value and palatablity decreases with matur...

Sand Bluestem ( Andropogon hallii), PLS Pound

Sand Bluestem is a warm-season, tall grass that spreads by underground rhizomes. It is a long-lived grass. It is similar to Big Bluestem, but short...

Sand Dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus), PLS Pound

A native warm-season perennial bunch grass which is very drought tolerant. Sand Dropseed makes its home on dry, sandy soils and will do quite well ...

Sand Lovegrass (Eragrostis trichodes), PLS Pound

Sand Lovegrass is a short to medium-lived, warm-season bunchgrass found in sandy sites in Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. It has also occurred in the...

Sideoats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendule), PLS Pound

Sideoats Grama is a long-lived, warm-season mid-grass. Normally it grows as a bunch grass, but some strains may have underground roots, stocks or r...

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), PLS Pound

Switchgrass is a tall, warm-season grass. It grow with culms from 2 to 5 feet tall and is quite leafy. It is a patchy sod-former. Switchgrass is th...

Texoka Buffalograss, Bulk Pound

Buffalo grass is a perennial, native, low-growing, warm-season grass.

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Weeping Lovergrass (Eragrostis curvula), PLS Pound

Weeping Lovegrass is a warm-season, perennial bunchgrass. It grows to a height of 2-4 feet and has 1/4" leaves of 10 to 20 inches in length. The lo...