Great Basin Wild Rye
Leymus cinereus
A towering, blue-green bunchgrass of valley bottoms and swales, with stiff wheat-like flower spikes. Bold structure and important cover and forage in the sagebrush country.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 5–5 ft
- Spacing
- 2–4 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds
- Landscape uses
- specimen, naturalizing
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, ID, MN, MT, NE, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY
Related native plants
More Leymus species
- Giant Wild Rye (Leymus condensatus)
- American Dunegrass (Leymus mollis)
- Beardless Wildrye (Leymus triticoides)