Native cool-season grasses (wheatgrasses) should be planted in September or October. Use a calibrated seeder designed to handle native grass seeds. Air-flow seeders, Brillion seeders and other seeders ...

Note: As a cool-season grass, it actively grows in the spring and fall. It still needs water in the summer, but no fertilizer ...

Sheep and hard fescue are excellent additions for native “no-mow” or “low-input” mixes. Creeping Bentgrass - (CBG) Agrostis stolonifera This fine-textured grass is unique among cool-season grasses in ...

Cool season grasses, those that initiate growth in late spring, such as native hair grass (Deschampsia sp.), deftly fill gaps left by spring bulbs after blooming, making them an excellent choice ...

Cattle producers wanting to stretch the grazing season might want to add native warm-season grasses to their operations, says Jim Humphrey, University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist. Both ...

This native, warm-season grass is distinct from its grama cousins. Side Oats Grama is one of four grama grasses found in Illinois, and, by far, the most common. Grama comes from the Latin word grāmen, ...

Teff grass Teff grass is native to Northern Africa ... Table 1: Forage quality of BMR sorghum-sudangrass, teff grass and cool-season grasses Description BMR sorghum-sudangrass Teff grass Cool-season ...

A native plant is one that was growing naturally in a specific ... Include a mixture of warm-season and cool-season grasses. Warm-season grasses predominate in prairies. They are slow to grow in the ...

Southeast Iowa remains early in the season, showing subtle yellow and brown tones. Southwestern Iowa’s native grasses are turning ... when sunny days and cool nights prevail.