NativeSeed Group Inventory

Short, Cool season, perennial native bunchgrass sometimes forming a sod. Occurs at high elevations in northern latitudes from 4,000-12,500 ft. Prefers mountain meadows, bogs and streambanks in well-dr...

• Growing Region:  Southeast, Midwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Land Reclamation
• Height:  1-2 ft

Formerly Elymus angustus. Robust, Cool season, long-lived, perennial bunchgrass with short creeping rhizomes. Well adapted to loam and clay soils, drought tolerant and extremely salt and alkaline resi...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Land Reclamation
• Height:  1-4 ft

Cool season, robust annual or short-lived perennial that may develop short rhizomes. Commonly occurs on wet sites such as ponds, swamps, ditch banks, shallow marshes and sloughs. Prefers clay soils; t...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West, Midwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Land Reclamation, Forage and Pasture
• Height:  1-3 ft

Formerly Lolium multiflorum. Cool season, annual bunchgrass adapted to many sites where adequate water is available. Establishes quickly and easily. Highly palatable to livestock and wildlife. Excelle...

• Growing Region:  Intermountain West, Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Southeast, California
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Commercial Beautification, Erosion Control, Land Reclamation, Turf, Forage and Pasture
• Height:  1-3 ft

Cool season, drought tolerant perennial bunchgrass with a coarse, dense fibrous root system. Most commonly found on thin, heavy soils but also occurs on deeper, coarser sites, often in association wit...

• Growing Region:  Southwest, Intermountain West
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Land Reclamation, Forage and Pasture
• Height:  1-2 ft

Cool season, tufted, native perennial grasslike. Occurs in wet meadows, streambanks, ditchways and saturated soils from low to mid elevations. May mimic an annual by maturing and flowering in its firs...

• Growing Region:  Midwest, Southeast, Pacific Northwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Land Reclamation, Forage and Pasture
• Height:  1-2 ft

Warm season, long-lived, perennial that spreads from rhizomes and stolons forming dense patches. Adapted to a wide variety of sites, including saline soils. Widely used for erosion control and as high...

• Growing Region:  Southeast, Midwest, Southwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Commercial Beautification, Erosion Control, Land Reclamation, Turf
• Height:  1-2 ft

Warm season, long-lived, perennial, bunchy sod-former occurs on a wide range of sites but thrives on well-drained soils. Rhizomes spread slowly. Tall, averaging 5-8 ft. in height, occasionally reachin...

• Growing Region:  Midwest, Intermountain West
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Land Reclamation, Forage and Pasture
• Height:  1-4 ft

Warm season, drought tolerant, perennial bunchgrass adapted to various soil textures. Tolerant of alkaline and saline soils; also seasonal flooding. Found in semidesert grasslands, shrublands and wetl...

• Growing Region:  Southwest, Intermountain West
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control
• Height:  4+ ft

Warm season, drought tolerant, stoloniferous perennial adapted to well-drained sandy and gravelly soils. Long-lived and considered the climax type of Southwest desert rangelands. Important forage gras...

• Growing Region:  Southwest, Intermountain West
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control
• Height:  1-2 ft

Cool season, native perennial grasslike with aggressive black rhizomes. Occurs in seasonally moist wetland areas and prairies, from low elevations up to 10,000 ft. Adapted to fine, medium and coarse a...

• Growing Region:  Intermountain West, Southwest, California
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Turf, Commercial Beautification, Land Reclamation, Forage and Pasture
• Height:  1-2 ft

Cool season, short to medium height, perennial bunchgrass adapted to a wide range of soils. Attractive light-blue color, often used as a landscape ornamental. Tolerant of drought, poor soils and road...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Commercial Beautification, Erosion Control, Land Reclamation, Turf
• Height:  4+ ft

Warm season, drought tolerant, perennial sod-former. Adapted to a broad spectrum of soils, but thrives on medium textured, well-drained sites. Highest drought tolerance of the major Great Plains grass...

• Growing Region:  Southwest, Intermountain West, Midwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Turf, Commercial Beautification, Land Reclamation, Forage and Pasture
• Height:  1-2 ft

Cool season tufted perennial bunchgrass which is highly desirable for use in erosion control seedings. Commonly found thriving in moist meadows, woodlands, or forests at mid elevations throughout its...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Turf, Commercial Beautification, Land Reclamation
• Height:  4+ ft

Formerly Agropyron spicatum. Cool season, drought tolerant, long-lived perennial bunchgrass widely distributed and adapted to most sites including thin, non-productive soils. Extensive root system. Es...

• Growing Region:  Midwest, Southeast
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Erosion Control, Land Reclamation, Forage and Pasture
• Height:  1-2 ft