Blue Wildrye
Elymus glaucus
Blue wildrye is a fast cool-season bunchgrass with blue-green blades and upright seed spikes, widespread in western woodlands and meadows. A quick-establishing host and cover grass.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–4 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- Bloom
- May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- green, brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MI, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY