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<br />st on wet, saline soils where few other grasses can survive. <br />g g ommercial availability questionable. <br />~--~,~j ALKALI-GRASS <br />~( Puccinellia lemmoni, Lemmons. P. airoides, Nuttall. P. disfans, weeping. Low-growing. <br />cool season bunchgrasses adapted to alkaline/saline soils with moderate moisture. <br />Adapt well to revegetation projects or low maintenance turf. <br />Variety: Fults (P. disfansJ <br />ALKALI SACATON <br />Sporobo/us airoides. Warm season bunchgrass. Native from Canada to Mexico on alkali <br />flats, also rocky and open plains. Tillers extensively on moist sites. Good forage while <br />actively growing. <br />ALTAI WILDRYE <br />Elymus angusfus. Tall bunchgrass with deep root system. Very alkali and drought <br />tolerant. Valuable for production of fall and winter standing forage. Adapted to deep, <br />prairie soils. <br />Variety: Prairieland <br />GREAT BASIN WILDRYE <br />Elymus cinereus. Large native bunchgrass adapted to the same soils as tall wheatgrass, <br />but more drought tolerant. Provides good wildlife cover and fall/winter forage. <br />Variety: Magnar <br />BEARDLESS WILDRYE <br />Elymus triticoides. Vigorous sod-forming grass. One of the most alkali tolerant species <br />of the N. Great Plains. <br />Variety: Shoshone <br />BERMUDA GRASS <br />Cynodon dactylon. Warm season perennial that spreads by rhizomes and stolons. <br />Adapted to highly saline as well as highly acid to neutral soils, if fertile. Prefers gravelly <br />loam to well-drained clay. Tolerates drought periods, but is not cold tolerant. <br />Note: Tolerance will vary depending on the types and concentrations of salts <br />present. <br />ALKALICORDGRASS <br />Spartina gracilis. Grows be <br />Fora a value fair to ood. C <br />SALINE OR ALKALINE <br />TOLERANT GRASSES <br />