What grass is this?

[Bob Peters]

Indian grass or switch grass?

 

[McFarmer]

Neither one.

Other than that I don’t know.

Kinda tall for little bluestem, looks like some side oats in the first photo.

 

[SDinWI]

Slender wheatgrass possibly

 

[That1uncle1776]

I thought it was side oats, but have never been for sure.

 

[haymaker]

I believe it is a wheatgrass, not sure which one.

 

[rangerman]

Crested wheatgrass

 

[Weimdogman]

From what I have seen the birds love it.

 

[WDH]

Tall wheatgrass

 

[rangerman]

western wheatgrass, losing my taxonomic skills

 

[SDinWI]

western wheatgrass, losing my taxonomic skillsView attachment 9296View attachment 9296

That looks like a winner. Looks nice and like the birds could eat the seeds

 

[Bob Peters]

Thanks rangerman! It's really common on the creps.

 

[NDPheasant]

Great post Bob. I like learning things like this and have encountered this grass several times. I think I call everything clover, koshia, and/or switchgrass.

 

[WDH]

the spikelet's (seeds)are too far apart for western wheat. They are also solitary. another trait. Tall wheat grows 3-7 feet tall.
Western wheat grows 1-2 1/2 feet, with the seed spike 2-6" in length.

 

[Bob Peters]

the spikelet's (seeds)are too far apart for western wheat. They are also solitary. another trait. Tall wheat grows 3-7 feet tall.
Western wheat grows 1-2 1/2 feet, with the seed spike 2-6" in length.

Do you happen to know what that grass is? I seen it on a few CREP properties in SD.

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

Look at Kernza( perennial wheat) I don’t think that’s what you have but maybe. My brother in law has some of the land institutes test plots on his farm. His dad was big into it. It’s taller like that.

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

Can breeders make Kernza a realistic crop to grow?

WILLISTON, N.D. – A large field of the intermediate wheatgrass, Kernza, stretched across the fields at more than five feet tall in some areas at NDSU’s Williston Research Extension Center

agupdate.com

 

[McFarmer]

My plant ID app calls it beardless wild rye. Not the best photo to tell however.