NATIVE GRASS SPECIFICATIONS
| Cool Season Natives | Seeding Rates | |||||
| Latin | Height | Seeds/lb. | lbs./acre | kg/ha | ||
| Wheatgrass | crested | A. cristatum | to 3 feet | 175,000 | 5 to 15 | 5.5 to 17 |
| (Agropyron sp.) | western | A. smithii | to 3 feet | 110,000 | 5 to 15 | 5.5 to17 |
| intermediate | A. intermedium | to 4 feet | 88,000 | 10 to 15 | 11 to 17 | |
| streambank | A. riparium | to 3 feet | 154,000 | 6 to 10 | 7 to 11 | |
| slender | A. trachycaulum | to 4 feet | 159,000 | 6 to 8 | 7 to 9 | |
| Foxtail | creeping | A. arundinaceus | < 4 feet | 900,000 | 6 to 10 | 7 to 11 |
| (Alopecurus sp.) | meadow | A. pratensis | to 3 feet | 580,000 | 12 to 15 | 13to 17 |
| Brome | meadow | B. biebersteinii | to 2 feet | 40,000 | 10 to 12 | 11 to 13 |
| (Bromus sp.) | smooth | B. inermis | to 4 feet | 125,000 | 5 to 8 | 5.5 to 9 |
| Tufted Hairgrass | Deschampsia caespitosa | to 4 feet | 2,500,000 | 1 to 2 | 1to 2 | |
| Wildrye | Canada | E. canadensis | to 4 feet | 160,000 | 12 to 15 | 13 to 17 |
| (Elymus sp.) | blue | E. glaucus | to 4 feet | 110,000 | 12 to 15 | 13 to 17 |
| Russian | E. junceus | to 3 feet | 160,000 | 12 to 15 | 13 to 17 | |
| Fescue | Arizona | F. arizonica | < 3 feet | 300,000 | 5 | 6 |
| (Festuca sp.) | Idaho | F. idahoensis | < 3 feet | 450,000 | 2 to 3 | 2 to 4 |
| meadow | F. elatior | < 4 feet | 250,000 | 7 to 18 | 8 to 20 | |
| sheeps | F. ovina var. ovina | < 18 inches | 680,000 | 10 | 11 | |
| Prairie Junegrass | Koeleria pyramidata | < 2 feet | 2,300,000 | 1 to 2 | 1to 2 | |
| Indian Ricegrass | Oryzopsis hymenoides | < 4 feet | 141,000 | 20 to 25 | 22to 28 | |
| Reed Canarygrass | Phalaris arundinacea | to 6 feet | 533,000 | 5 to 10 | 5.5to 11 | |
| Bluegrass | big | P. ampla | to 4 feet | 882,000 | 3 to 5 | 3 to 5.5 |
| (Poa sp.) | Canby | P. canbyi | < 18 inches | 925,000 | 3 to 5 | 3 to 5.5 |
| Canada | P. compressa | < 2 feet | 2,500,000 | 1 to 3 | 1 to 3 | |
| sandberg | P. secunda | < 16 inches | 925,000 | 3 to 5 | 3 to 5.5 | |
| Alkaligrass | Puccinellia distans | < 16 inches | 2,000,000 | 4 | 4 | |
| Warm Season Natives | Seeding Rates | |||||
| Latin | Height | Seeds/lb. | lbs./acre | kg/ha | ||
| Bluestem | big | Andropogon geradii | to 6 feet | 130,000 | 10 to 15 | 11 to 17 |
| sand | A. halii | to 6 feet | 125,000 | 4 to 6 | 4 to 7 | |
| little | Schizachyrium scoparium | to 4 feet | 260,000 | 3 to 4 | 3 to 5 | |
| Grama | blue | B. eriopoda | < 2 feet | 825,000 | 1 to 3 | 1 to 3 |
| (Bouteloua sp.) | sideoats | B. curtipendula | < 3 feet | 191,000 | 3 to 6 | 3to 7 |
| Lovegrass | weeping | E. curvula | to 4 feet | 1,500,000 | 2 | 2 |
| (Eragrostis sp.) | sand | E. trichodes | to 5 feet | 1,500,000 | 2 | 2 |
| Switchgrass | Panicum virgatum | to 5 feet | 389,000 | 5 to 8 | 5.5 to 9 | |
| Indiangrass | Sorghastrum nutans | to 6 feet | 170,000 | 6 to 8 | 7 to 9 | |
| Alkali Sacaton | Sporobolus airiodes | < 3 feet | 1,758,000 | <1 | <1 | |
| Eastern Gamagrass | Tripsacum dactyloides | nearly 10 feet | 5,500 | 8 | 9 | |
