Alpine Timothy
Phleum alpinum
Alpine timothy is a compact cool-season bunchgrass of high mountain meadows, with dense cylindrical seed heads, hardy and tidy for cold, moist, high-elevation sites. Like other grasses, the seed has documented use as a ground-flour grain.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1.4–1.4 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green, purple
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- border, groundcover, container, naturalizing
- Native states
- AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, ME, MI, MT, NE, NH, NM, NV, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY