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iJative Grazses <br />22. Western wbeaterass (APrODVfon smithit) <br />A cool season mid grass. Widely distributed in the <br />state. From dense stands in moist drainage ways and <br />bottomlands of the plains to less dense, scattered plants <br />on hills and drier sites. Soil usually tends to be alkaline. <br />A very good forage plant. It grows fairly eazly and is <br />grazed year around. Nutrient content is high, even after <br />maturity, so the winter forage is good.The seedheads are <br />especially palatable. <br />A sod-forming glass with long, gray, scaly rhizomes, <br />Often forms a dense, compact sod. Culms are 1 to 2 112 <br />feet tall, erect and numerous. Leaves are 4 to 10 inches <br />long, stiff, ridged on the upper surface, blue-green color, <br />taper to a sharp point. The inflorescence is a spike, 2 to 6 <br />inches long, pale bluish color. Spikelets usually solitary <br />(occasionally 2) at each joint of the rachis, overlapping or <br />imbricate. Gltunes rigid, awl-shaped, taper into a short <br />awn. <br />Page 17 <br />~ ~. <br />23. Foxtail barley (Hordeam jubatam) <br />A cool season short to mid gras:~. Widely distributed <br />over the state. Open ground, meadows, plains, along <br />streams and ditches, along roadsides and in fields. May <br />supply a limited amount of fair foral;e before the <br />seedheads are produced. After the seedheads are mature, <br />they are mechanically injurious to all grazing animals. An <br />undesirable grass that comes in on abandoned fields and <br />increases on overgrazed ranges. <br />A bunchgrass. Culms 8 to 24 inches tall, erect or <br />decumbent at the base. Leaves 1 to ti inches long, rather <br />harsfi. The inflorescence is a spike 2 to 4 inches long, <br />nodding, green or purple. Three spikelets at each joint of <br />the rachis. Lemmas and glumes haul: rough awns up to 2 <br />1/2 inches long. The two outside spikeleu do not produce <br />seeds (sterile) and consist of 1 to 3 spreading awns. The <br />inflorescence breaks up when mature. <br />