Botany from the desert

[leanin' H]

Thanks to Big Muddy Rancher it's been fun to look at different plants and try to figure out what they are! :tiphat: Thanks BMR!!!! Heres a couple from my drive last night! One is easy and the other maybe not.
The tall, near plant and the shorter plant behind. The flash on my camera washed the color out but both plants are green.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

The short green plant inhabits the desert of Saskatchewan.

Crested Wheat grass,,, The government pushed this grass to seed down all the land blowing around in the dirty 30's that they encouraged to be broke from the homestead days.

The other one is a Wheat grass Maybe Northern Wheat grass?

 

[gcreekrch]

Crested Wheat and Quack Grass?

 

[Grassfarmer]

I would agree with gcreekranch, certainly looks like one of the two quack grass types. The king of grasses.

 

[leanin' H]

Crested wheat is the easy one. The other isnt quack grass. Anymore guess's?

 

[leanin' H]

Hint: Thinopyrum intermedium

 

[per]

Intermediate Wheatgrass... looks like quackgrass to me

 

[Cedarcreek]

The short green plant inhabits the desert of Saskatchewan.

Crested Wheat grass,,, The government pushed this grass to seed down all the land blowing around in the dirty 30's that they encouraged to be broke from the homestead days.

Crested Wheat grass is one that I would be happy to do without. Dad planted about 300 acres it the '30's using horses to pull the drill. The state highway dept. planted it along the highway past our place in the '70's. between those two seed sources I have about 3000 acres now. I haven't bee able to find a grazing system that will keep it from spreading in pastures that are part Crested and part native grasses. Cattle will only graze it for a little while in the spring and maybe a little in the fall if it greens up if they have access to anything else.

 

[leanin' H]

Out here crested wheat is a lifesaver in dry country. A lot of guys graze it on winter permits. We have a lot on our foothill areas and use it early each spring. The picture of the Intermediate Wheat grass is really poor but thats what the plant is. It is a stemy, coarse grass that is best used real early or during the winter. I just hauled 500 small bales of it for a guy here in town. He cuts one cut a year and keeps it a lot more palatable. Then he grazes the regrowth and the cows do fine. Alright, who's got another one?

 

[Faster horses]

We graze crested wheatgrass too and are glad we have it.
We can save the native pasture til later in the season.
Cedarcreek, we have a customer that foreces his cattle to
eat crested til it's gone and his calves weigh 650 lbs. or more
in the fall!!

 

[Trinity man]

I thought the tall grass was Rye grass. :???:

 

[Cedarcreek]

We graze crested wheatgrass too and are glad we have it.
We can save the native pasture til later in the season.
Cedarcreek, we have a customer that foreces his cattle to
eat crested til it's gone and his calves weigh 650 lbs. or more
in the fall!!

I agree that if cattle are force to eat it they will do alright. My problem is that it is spreading into the native pastures and cattle won't eat it during the summer but over use the native if I let them where its not fenced separate.