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Grasses of Montana (Poaceae Family)

Grasses as listed by the State of Montana Initial Upload: USDA Plants database state list combined with Montana Species Snapshot Filtered from All Montana Species Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on May 27, 2018, from ...more ↓

prairie sandreed 1
Calamovilfa longifolia
little ricegrass
Piptatheropsis exigua
slimstem reedgrass 2
Calamagrostis stricta
northern reedgrass 3
Calamagrostis stricta inexpansa
foxtail pricklegrass
Crypsis alopecuroides
slimstem reedgrass
Calamagrostis stricta stricta
green needlegrass 4
Nassella viridula
Tweedy's reedgrass
Calamagrostis tweedyi
annual fescue 5
Vulpia myuros
green bristlegrass 6
Setaria viridis
hooked bristlegrass 7
Setaria verticillata
yellow foxtail 8
Setaria pumila pumila
yellow foxtail 9
Setaria pumila
alkali cordgrass
Spartina gracilis
prairie cordgrass 10
Spartina pectinata
tall trisetum 11
Trisetum canescens
hybrid false oat
Trisetum × orthochaetum
spike trisetum 4
Trisetum spicatum
Indiangrass 12
Sorghastrum nutans
foxtail millet
Setaria italica
grain sorghum 13
Sorghum bicolor bicolor
sixweeks fescue 4
Vulpia octoflora
sixweeks fescue
Vulpia octoflora glauca
slender wedgescale 14
Sphenopholis intermedia
sixweeks fescue
Vulpia octoflora hirtella
sixweeks fescue
Vulpia octoflora octoflora
mountain hairgrass 4
Vahlodea atropurpurea
cereal rye 4
Secale cereale
common rivergrass 15
Scolochloa festucacea
common hardgrass 16
Sclerochloa dura
Wolf's trisetum 17
Trisetum wolfii
corn 18
Zea mays mays
intermediate wheatgrass 19
Thinopyrum intermedium
desert fescue 20
Vulpia microstachys
brome fescue 21
Vulpia bromoides
North Africa grass
Ventenata dubia
little bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium scoparium
prairie wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
northern wildrice 22
Zizania palustris palustris
northern wildrice 23
Zizania palustris
green bristlegrass
Setaria viridis viridis
tumblegrass 24
Schedonnardus paniculatus
Johnsongrass 8
Sorghum halepense
corn 25
Zea mays
pale false mannagrass 4
Torreyochloa pallida
pale false mannagrass
Torreyochloa pallida pauciflora
tall fescue 26
Schedonorus arundinaceus
little bluestem 27
Schizachyrium scoparium
meadow fescue 4
Schedonorus pratensis
false melic 28
Schizachne purpurascens
sorghum 29
Sorghum bicolor
tall wheatgrass 30
Thinopyrum ponticum
medusahead 4
Taeniatherum caput-medusae
sand dropseed 4
Sporobolus cryptandrus
puffsheath dropseed 22
Sporobolus neglectus
mesa dropseed 31
Sporobolus flexuosus
composite dropseed 32
Sporobolus compositus compositus
blowout grass
Redfieldia flexuosa
Pacific fescue
Vulpia microstachys pauciflora
alkali sacaton 33
Sporobolus airoides
common wheat 31
Triticum aestivum
composite dropseed 34
Sporobolus compositus
prairie dropseed 12
Sporobolus heterolepis

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