Common Grasses of Nebraska: Rangeland Prairie Pasture (Including Grass-Like Plants)

Authors

• Cheryl Dunn, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
• Mitchell B. Stephenson, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• James Stubbendieck, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2016

Document Type

Article

Citation

EC 170

Comments

Copyright © 2016 University of Nebraska

Abstract

Introduction 3 • Plant Groups 4 • Parts of a Grass Plant 5 • Inflorescence Characteristics 5 • Vegetative Characteristics 5 • Parts of a Grass-Like • Plant 5 • Fruit and Floral Characteristics 5 • Vegetative Characteristics 5 •

Warm-Season • Perennial Grasses • Bermudagrass 14 • Blowoutgrass 15 • bluestems: • Big bluestem 16 • Little bluestem 18 • Sand bluestem 20 • Silver bluestem 21 • Yellow bluestem 22 • Buffalograss 24 • dropseeds: • Alkali sacaton 26 • Prairie dropseed 27 • Sand dropseed 29 • Tall dropseed 30 • Eastern gamagrass 32 • gramas: • Blue grama 33 • Hairy grama 35 • Sideoats grama 36 • Indiangrass 38 • Inland saltgrass 40 • Johnsongrass 41 • lovegrasses: • Purple lovegrass 43 • Sand lovegrass 44 • muhlys: • Marsh muhly 45 • Plains muhly 47 • Sandhill muhly 48 • Scratchgrass 49 • Phragmites 50 • Prairie cordgrass 52 • Prairie sandreed 54 • Purple threeawn 55 • Purpletop 56 • Sand paspalum 58 • Switchgrass 59 • Tumblegrass 61 • Windmillgrass 62

Warm-Season • Annual Grasses • Barnyardgrass 66 • Bearded sprangletop 67 • crabgrasses: • Hairy crabgrass 68 • Smooth crabgrass 69 • Fall panicum 70 • foxtails: • Green foxtail 72 • Hooked foxtail 73 • Yellow foxtail 74 • Goosegrass 76 • Poverty dropseed 77 • Purple sandgrass 78 • Sandbur 79 • Stinkgrass 81 • threeawns: • Forktip threeawn 82 • Prairie threeawn 83 • Witchgrass 84

Cool-Season • Perennial Grasses • bentgrasses: • Redtop bentgrass 88 • Spike bentgrass 89 • Winter bentgrass 90 • bluegrasses: • Bulbous bluegrass 91 • Canada bluegrass 92 • Kentucky bluegrass 94 • Mutton bluegrass 95 • Plains bluegrass 96 • Sandberg bluegrass 98 • Bluejoint reedgrass 99 • bromegrasses: • Meadow brome 101 • Smooth brome 102 • Creeping foxtail 103 • Fowl mannagrass 105 • Foxtail barley 106 • Green needlegrass 108 • Indian ricegrass 109 • Needleandthread 111 • Orchardgrass 112 • Perennial ryegrass 114 • Porcupinegrass 115 • Prairie junegrass 116 • Prairie wedgescale 117 • Quackgrass 119 • Reed canarygrass 120 • rosettegrasses: • Scribner rosettegrass 121 • Wilcox rosettegrass 123 • Squirreltail 124 • Tall fescue 125 • Timothy 127 • Weeping alkaligrass 129 • wheatgrasses: • Crested wheatgrass 130 • Intermediate wheatgrass 132 • Slender wheatgrass 133 • Tall wheatgrass 135 • Western wheatgrass 136 • wildryes: • Canada wildrye 138 • Russian wildrye 139

Cool-Season • Annual Grasses: • American sloughgrass 142 • Annual bluegrass 143 • Cheatgrass 144 • Japanese brome 145 • Little barley 146 • Northern wildrice 148 • Sixweeksgrass 149 •

Grass-Like • Plants: • American bulrush 152 • Field horsetail 153 • Schweinitz flatsedge 154 • sedges: • Nebraska sedge 155 • Needleleaf sedge 156 • Sun sedge 157 • Threadleaf sedge 158 • Yellow nutsedge 160 • Glossary 161 • Ecological Sites 170 • Selected References 173 • Index 175