Bluebunch Wheatgrass
Pseudoroegneria spicata
Bluebunch wheatgrass is the signature bunchgrass of the sagebrush steppe and a workhorse of western restoration, with blue-green tufts and slender seed spikes. Drought-hardy and long-lived. Like other wheatgrasses, the seed has documented use as a ground-flour grain.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1.5–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- white, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MI, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY