Indian ricegrass can form natural hybrids with other members of the Stipeae, usually referred to as Achnatherum x bloomeri (Barkworth, et al., 2007).
Indian Ricegrass - US Forest Service
Achnatherum hymenoides is a member of the Poaceae, or grass family. It likes to live in sandy soils and is adapted to dry places, but also lives in moist areas within drier environments; look for it where you see sagebrush, juniper, or ponderosa pine.
Indian ricegrass Achnatherum hymenoides (Roemer & J.A. Schultes) Barkworth (formerly Oryzopsis hymenoides and Stipa hymenoides) is a widely distributed, short to medium lived, native, cool-season bunchgrass generally found in the plains, foothills, mountains, and intermountain basins of the western United States on dry and primarily loamy-sandy-
Achnatherum hymenoides. A Native Conservation Grass for Use in the Northern . Great Plains and Rocky Mountains . Roger M. Hybner, Research Agronomist, NRCS Bridger Plant Materials Center . Figure 1. Rimrock Indian ricegrass field at the Bridger Plant Materials Center . …
SPECIES: Achnatherum hymenoides - US Forest Service
The fully documented scientific name of Indian ricegrass is Achnatherum hymenoides (Roemer & J.A. Schultes.) Barkworth . Indian ricegrass hybridizes with various needlegrasses (Stipa spp. sensu lato) including green needlegrass (Nassella viridula) .
Achnatherum hymenoides : Indian Ricegrass - Minnesota DNR
Achnatherum hymenoides (Indian ricegrass) is a characteristic and common grass in arid and semiarid regions of the West. However, the eastward extent of its range ends abruptly near the 100th meridian, before it reaches the tallgrass prairie region.
Achnatherum hymenoides - FNA
May 11, 2021 · Achnatherum hymenoides grows in dry, well-drained soils, primarily in the western part of the Flora region and northern Mexico. Specimens from further east may be introduced; it is unknown whether they have persisted.
Featured Plant: Achnatherum hymenoides - Indian ricegrass
Mar 10, 2021 · Achnatherum hymenoides, commonly known as Indian ricegrass, is a native cool season, bunchgrass that grows in dry plains and mountain habitat in the central and western United States and southwest Canada. You’ll often find Indian ricegrass growing in sagebrush, juniper and ponderosa pine-dominant plant communities.
CNPS Alliance: Achnatherum hymenoides
Achnatherum hymenoides is a native perennial bunchgrass that tolerates low nutrient and water levels. Germination of seeds is low unless scarified, aged, or stratified (Griffith and Booth 1988, Jones and Neilson 1992). Seedling establishment is high under moist conditions.
Achnatherum hymenoides (Indian Rice Grass) - Minnesota …
Indian Rice Grass, formerly Oryzopsis hymenoides, is a common grass of the Great Plains and western North America from southern Canada to northern Mexico, but is extremely rare in Minnesota.