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Green Needle Grass

This grass is an important native of the Northern Great Plains, and is found as far south as Arizona. Green needlegrass grows on medium- to fine-textured soils. On medium-textured soils, green needlegrass grows with western wheatgrass, needle-and-thread and blue grama. On finer-textured soils, needle-and-thread drops out, and on even finer soils blue grama decreases leaving green needlegrass and western wheatgrass as dominants. This grass grows at all elevations up to about 5,000 feet, and is moderately drought tolerant. The chief use of this grass is grazing. It is recommended for seeding in the 12- to 18-inch precipitation zone.

Green needlegrass is very resistant to disease. It occurs only sparingly in most of the associations of native vegetation. It is distinctly less well-adapted to dry soil conditions than needle-and-thread, and occurs in greatest abundance on areas where the native vegetation has been disturbed, or in swales where moisture conditions are somewhat more favorable. It is particularly abundant in the early stages of natural revegetation of abandoned cultivated fields.

Thanks to, Montana Interagency Plant Materials Handbook

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