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Table 9 .2 Climax Seed Mixture <br /> Species Per Cent by Weight <br /> Hard Fescue (Festuca ovina, Durar) 8% <br /> Red Fescue ( Festuca rubra, Penlawn) 8% <br /> Orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata, Potomoc) 5% <br /> Creeping foxtail (Alopecurus arundinaceus, <br /> Garrison) or Meadow foxtail (Alopecurus <br /> pratensis) 10% <br /> Timothy (Phleum pratense , Climax) 5% <br /> Redtop (Agrostis alba) 3% <br /> Smooth brome (Bromus inermis , Manchar) 17% <br /> Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis, Troy) 3% <br /> White Dutch clover (Trifolium re ens) 10% <br /> Rye (Secale cereale, Balbo) 23% <br /> Milkvetch (Astragalus cicer, cicar) 8% <br /> 100% <br /> In 1977, the grasses and legumes seeded during 1969 <br /> and 1971 were rated on vigor and ground cover density. Eight <br /> grass species were rated good or near-good in vigor and ground <br /> cover density; they were : <br /> 1 . Smooth brome was the most vigorous of the species tested; it <br /> reproduced by rhizomes. Manchar was the variety tested and <br /> recommended . Studies are underway by Robin Cuany of CSU to <br /> make selections within crosses of this variety and the <br /> variety Sac and Polar brome for revegetation in the sub- <br /> alpine . <br /> 2 . Meadow foxtail was among the more persistent of commercially <br /> available grass species for the upper subalpine and it was <br /> probably the only one in these trials that will set viable <br /> seed at this elevation. <br /> 3. Creeping foxtail has done well in the 1971 seedings on the <br /> two replications that were on the more moist sites. This <br /> species reproduces by rhizomes that have invaded as much as <br /> 5 feet into adjacent plots of less vigorous species . <br /> 9-3 <br />