10 Grasses in Northern America
A brief guide that looks at 10 Grasses in Northern America.
beardless wild rye
Leymus triticoides, with the common names creeping wild rye and beardless wild rye, is a species of wild rye. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California and Texas.
Beardless wildrye is considered palatable to all livestock.
blue wild rye
A perennial grass that occurs throughout western North America from Alaska to Ontario southward to New Mexico, northern Arizona, California, and Mexico. Blue wildrye is rare in the Great Plains and eastward.
Native to Canada, lower 48 states, and Alaska.
Palatable Browse Animal Low
Palatable Graze Animal Medium
Meadow barley
Hordeum brachyantherum, known by the common name Meadow barley, is a species of barley. It is native to western North America from Alaska to northern Mexico, coastal areas of eastern-most Russia (Kamchatka), and a small area of coastal Newfoundland.
Palatable Browse Animal Low
Palatable Graze Animal Low
wall barley
Hordeum murinum, commonly known as wall barley or false barley, is a species of grass. It is native to Eurasia, where it is a common weed in areas of human disturbance.
The livestock seem accustomed to the grass as a forage crop and it constitutes a large part of the pasture during the winter. Dairy cows produce a good quantity of milk when pastured on this ...more ↓
dwarf barley
Hordeum depressum is a species of barley known by the common names low barley and dwarf barley. It is an annual herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.
Another species of Barley, Hordeum vulgare, is a major food and animal feed crop, a member of the grass family. Barley is the ...more ↓
