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.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–4 ft
- Spacing
- 2–4 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- green, brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, ID, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY