Indian ricegrass is used by domestic cattle, sheep and horses and is highly palatable during most of the year with the exception of late spring when seed heads are forming. It provides valuable forage for cattle in winter especially in salt desert communities and …

Eriocoma hymenoides (common names: Indian ricegrass and sand rice grass) is a cool-season, perennial bunchgrass. It is native to western North America.

As the common name implies, Native Americans utilized this species of grass in a manner analogous to that of rice by peoples of the Old World and their descendants. The name in Spanish is essentially the same: “arroz indio.” It is also known as Indian Millet or Sand-grass, and Latin synonyms are Oryzopsis h., Stipa h., and Eriocoma cuspidata.

Indian ricegrass is 8 to 30 inches tall. It has many tightly rolled, slender leaves, growing from the base of the bunch giving it a slightly wiry appearance. The ligule is about 6 mm long and acute. It has a wide spreading panicle inflorescence with a single flower at the end of each hairlike branch.

with needle and thread grass, it is considered a natural early seral or pioneer species. On sand dune sites, Indian ricegrass can be the major grass component of the establishing plant community with natural reseeding occurring over time. Indian ricegrass produces an abundance of plump seed with protein levels of 15 to 17 percent.

2023年9月18日 · Indian rice grass, Achnatherum (or Oryzopsis or Stipa) hymenoides, is a drought-tolerant bunchgrass that grows from 1 to 2.5 feet tall. In contrast to many other grass species, bunchgrasses do not have rhizomes that promote clonal growth and the formation of sod.

Indian ricegrass is one of the more widely adapted native grasses of Utah rangelands. It is drought tolerant and found on most of Utah's range sites. It grows at elevations between 3,000 and 10,000 feet. Soils: Adapted to a wide variety of …

Indian ricegrass is widely distributed throughout the western United States. [18, 113]. It occurs east of the Cascade Range from British Columbia south to southern California and northeastern Mexico and east to Alberta, the Dakotas, and Texas [56].

2021年3月10日 · Achnatherum hymenoides, commonly known as Indian ricegrass, is a native cool season, bunchgrass that grows in dry plains and mountain habitat in the central and western United States and southwest Canada. You’ll often find Indian ricegrass growing in sagebrush, juniper and ponderosa pine-dominant plant communities.

Indian Rice Grass, formerly Oryzopsis hymenoides, is a common grass of the Great Plains and western North America from southern Canada to northern Mexico, but is extremely rare in Minnesota.