Grasses and Sedges of Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

big bluestem 1
Andropogon gerardii
canadian bluejoint 2
Calamagrostis canadensis
Great Plains Flatsedge 3
Cyperus lupulinus
Fowl Mannagrass 4
Glyceria striata
Purple Lovegrass 5
Eragrostis spectabilis
Smooth Meadow-grass 6
Poa pratensis pratensis
little bluestem 7
Schizachyrium scoparium
Indiangrass 8
Sorghastrum nutans
slender wheat grass 9
Elymus trachycaulus
Rough Bentgrass
Agrostis scabra scabra
blue grama 10
Bouteloua gracilis
Creeping Bent 11
Agrostis stolonifera
Fringed Brome 12
Bromus ciliatus
Prairie Brome 13
Bromus kalmii
Slim-stem Small-reedgrass 14
Calamagrostis stricta
Sand Reedgrass 15
Sporobolus rigidus
Quack Grass
Elymus repens
Bebb's Sedge
Carex bebbii
Buxbaum's sedge 16
Carex buxbaumii
creeping sedge 17
Carex chordorrhiza
open-field sedge 18
Carex conoidea
straw sedge 18
Carex foenea
Hayden's sedge 15
Carex haydenii
lesser tussock sedge 19
Carex diandra
inland sedge 20
Carex interior
lake sedge 9
Carex lacustris
woolly sedge
Carex pellita
Slender Sedge 21
Carex lasiocarpa americana
blunt sedge 22
Carex obtusata
Pennsylvania sedge 23
Carex pensylvanica
prairie sedge 3
Carex prairea
Sartwell's sedge 24
Carex sartwellii
pointed broom sedge 25
Carex scoparia
tussock sedge 26
Carex stricta
Rigid Sedge 15
Carex tetanica
Common Cotton-grass 27
Eriophorum angustifolium
northern sweetgrass 3
Anthoxanthum hirtum
Slender Path Rush 28
Juncus tenuis
Vasey's Rush 29
Juncus vaseyi
prairie junegrass 11
Koeleria macrantha
heath wood-rush 30
Luzula multiflora
rice cutgrass 31
Leersia oryzoides
Marsh Muhly 22
Muhlenbergia glomerata
northern witchgrass 14
Dichanthelium boreale
Leiberg's Rosette Grass 15
Dichanthelium leibergii
Long-panicled Panicgrass 32
Dichanthelium perlongum
White-hair Witchgrass 33
Dichanthelium villosissimum praecocius
Timothy 34
Phleum pratense
Swamp Meadow-grass 11
Poa palustris
woolgrass 35
Scirpus cyperinus
prairie cordgrass 3
Sporobolus michauxianus
prairie wedge grass
Sphenopholis obtusata
porcupine needlegrass 8
Hesperostipa spartea
redtop 15
Agrostis gigantea
Winter Bentgrass 36
Agrostis hyemalis
Oat 37
Avena sativa
Schweinitz's flatsedge 3
Cyperus schweinitzii
Starved Witchgrass 38
Dichanthelium depauperatum
common waterweed 18
Elodea canadensis
Quack Grass
Elymus repens
foxtail barley 39
Hordeum jubatum jubatum
reed canary grass 40
Phalaris arundinacea
switchgrass 3
Panicum virgatum
Green Bristle Grass 41
Setaria viridis
sand dropseed 11
Sporobolus cryptandrus

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