A perennial, warm season, native grass that provides poor grazing for wildlife and livestock.
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Plant Description:
General
Life Span
Perennial
Growth Form
tall, erect to spreading, simple
Management:
Seeding Rate 40" Rows: Broadcast:
Planting Date
Planting Depth
pH requirement
Soil texture Sandy: Loam: Clay:
Cold Tolerance:
General
Provides poor grazing for wildlife and livestock.
ID Features:
This 6- to 12-inch sodgrass grows from fuzzy, scaly rhizomes, but also with stolons that take root at nodes. Male and female plants grow in patches. The female resembles a threeawn and varies from pale green to reddish purple. The male has pale, overlapping, awnless spikelets. This grass, which increases on overstocked ranges and sterile soil.