2025 Grass Collection

An area along the south field trail has been prepared for the organized seeding of 25 different grasses.

This section will not include wet-land, shade loving grasses, or grasses already widely established such as Big Blue Stem, Indian Grass, Side-Oats Grama, etc.

This section will include:

Broomsedge – Andropogon virginicus
Blue Grama – Bouteloua gracilis
Prairie Brome – Bromus kalmii
Ear-Leaved Brome – Bromus latiglumis
Buffalo Grass – Buchloe dactyloides
Blue Joint Grass – Calamagrostis canadensis
River Oats – Chasmanthium latifolium
Poverty Oat Grass – Danthonia spicata
Beak Grass – Diarrhena obovata
Purple Love Grass – Eragostis spectabilis
Riverbank Wild Rye -Elymus riparius
Slender Wheat Grass – Elymus trachycaulus
Catchfly Grass – Leersia lenticularis
June Grass – Koeleria macrantha
Leafy Satin Grass -Muhlenbergia mexicana
Upland Wild Timothy – Muhlenbergia racemosa
Rough-Leaved Rice Grass – Oryzopsis asperifolia
Scribner’s Panic Grass – Panicum oligosanthes
Hairy Lens Grass – Paspalum setaceum
Prairie Wedgegrass – Sphenopholis obtusata
Rough Dropseed – Sprobolus compositus
Sand Dropseed – Sporobolus cryptandrus
Porcupine Grass – Stipa spartea
Green Needle Grass – Stipa viridula
Purpletop – Tridens flavus