grass ID

[jodywy]

seed head was cone shaped, was at the edge of a flower, rhubarb garden .

Seed head is coned shaped, it was at the edge of a flower garden Sue mulch heavy with compressed straw bales

 

[jodywy]

Sue got a "Pawnee Buttes seed inc. Guide to Grasses" looks like it is Alpine timothy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phleum_alpinum

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

It does look like the Timothy grass in Colorado where I grew up. That was at 8,000 feet so probably the Alpine variety. Do you also have Bison grass in your area?

 

[jodywy]

Weed and Pest Guy from Lincoln County Travis Osmond (Yes !his dad is one of the Osmonds).got me corrected, it is

Canary-Grass (Phalaris canariensis)

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

Interesting! I haven't heard of Canary grass.

 

[jodywy]

Interesting! I haven't heard of Canary grass.

we had Reed Canary grass in our irrigated meadows back in Star Valley it could grow over 7 feet high, it was stalky but on the snow the cows cleaned it up. think there was lot of sugar in the stalk. Loved really wet feet. But creeping Garrison foxtail could choke it out.

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

we had Reed Canary grass in our irrigated meadows back in Star Valley it could grow over 7 feet high, it was stalky but on the snow the cows cleaned it up. think there was lot of sugar in the stalk. Loved really wet feet. But creeping Garrison foxtail could choke it out.

I just looked at local my grasses guide and I guess along the ditches and river banks, we have what I call reed grass and it is 6 foot tall. It is correctly called Reed Canary grass. The seed head differs from the one you showed. I guess I should learn the correct common English names, but what I won't learn is the Latin and Greek nomenclature names.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

If it came in the straw bales maybe Canary seed,

Lots grown in Saskatchewan and harvested for the seed, The straw make decent straw for bedding and they eat some of it.

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

ID these that grow along the ditch banks. Taken on my morning walk.

 

[Faster horses]

Do I see some switchgrass?

 

[Mountain Cowgirl]

Could be. I always get the names wrong. What I called Quackgrass, most call Crabgrass. We have both, but when I can see 3 foot runners, it is going down as Quackgrass. Then there is Cheatgrass that I get right. In the photos, there is cheat, quack, sedge, foxtail, cattail, and some Timothy. Not sure about the short one with fuzzy white heads and too lazy to look it up. The tall one with reeds, I have no idea. I was going to check it closer, but I would have to wade through goat heads and I have become an old sissy about such activity.

 

[Faster horses]

How did I miss cheatgrass? It's the scourge of the prairie.
I'll have to take another look.