Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
Beardless wildrye is a vigorous, rhizomatous western grass that spreads into uniform blue-green stands, used for erosion control and restoration on alkaline and seasonally wet soils. The seed has been ground into flour for bread and porridge — the hairs on the seed must be singed off first.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–3 ft
- Spacing
- 2–4 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, TX, UT, WA, WY
Related native plants
More Leymus species
- Giant Wild Rye (Leymus condensatus)
- Great Basin Wild Rye (Leymus cinereus)
- American Dunegrass (Leymus mollis)