Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
Sandberg bluegrass is a drought-tough, early-greening bunchgrass of the dry Intermountain West, an important early-season forage and a backbone of sagebrush-steppe restoration.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2.3–2.3 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MI, MN, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY