Kansas playas

Guide to plants found in western Kansas playas

cheatgrass 1
Bromus tectorum
Buchloe dactyloides 2
Bouteloua dactyloides
rough cockspur 3
Echinochloa muricata
Canada wild rye 4
Elymus canadensis
squirreltail 5
Hordeum jubatum
little barley 6
Hordeum pusillum
Leptochloa 7
witch grass 8
Panicum capillare
Smooth Witchgrass 9
Panicum dichotomiflorum
Pascopyrum smithii 10
Elymus smithii
foxtails and bristlegrasses 11
Setaria
Johnsongrasses, milos, sudangrasses, and allies 12
Sorghum
sand dropseed 3
Sporobolus cryptandrus
Wheats 13
Triticum
Maize 14
Zea mays
squirreltail 3
Elymus elymoides
purple three-awn 15
Aristida purpurea
sideoats grama 16
Bouteloua curtipendula
blue grama 17
Bouteloua gracilis

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