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Post by benmnwi on Sept 5, 2018 18:46:22 GMT -6
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 5, 2018 18:48:45 GMT -6
Any ideas what this grass is? I dug up a strip of crappy soil and threw all my leftover garden seeds including a wildflower packet. Also some old pheasants forever seed mix. This grass grew 4'+ in crappy soil and looks like great cover. Just wondering what this is since I need more of it.
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 5, 2018 18:48:49 GMT -6
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 5, 2018 18:53:00 GMT -6
That's what I thought initially but I don't think the seeds look quite right. I could be wrong though.
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 5, 2018 19:05:05 GMT -6
The second pic is a closeup of the seeds. They are oval shaped and hard and grow in rows on that 2 inch fuzzy stem thing.
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Post by wiscwhip on Sept 5, 2018 20:56:17 GMT -6
With those hard rounded seeds, I do not think it is any type of grama grass.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 6, 2018 8:25:43 GMT -6
I dont know the answer to your pic. But.....Putting your pic on I-Naturalist gives these top results:
1. Big Blustem 2. Blue Gama 3. Canadian Wild Rye 4. Sideoats Gama 5. Bottlebrush Grass 6. Little Bluestem 7. Brownseed Paspalum 8. Smooth Brome 9. Giant Foxtail 10. Indiangrass.
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 6, 2018 10:44:16 GMT -6
Thanks Foggy. I looked them all up and the pictures I saw online were close, but the seeds didn't match. Brownseed Paspalum had the closest looking seeds, but they weren't quite right either. And that plant is found only along the southern US. This is odd, I figured this would be an easy one to ID.
It's probably some rare exotic invasive that will take over shortly. It's odd that it grew so well on really crappy ground without fertilizer or irrigation.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 6, 2018 11:46:47 GMT -6
Thanks Foggy. I looked them all up and the pictures I saw online were close, but the seeds didn't match. Brownseed Paspalum had the closest looking seeds, but they weren't quite right either. And that plant is found only along the southern US. This is odd, I figured this would be an easy one to ID. It's probably some rare exotic invasive that will take over shortly. It's odd that it grew so well on really crappy ground without fertilizer or irrigation. I think my program uses my location to make suggestions. You may want to try it with your phone and program?? It may provide a different answer. Also, I was going to try a different picture you posted.....but I got busy with other matters......and then forgot about it. . The I-Naturalist program is pretty neat. Highly reccommmend it
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Post by jbird on Sept 6, 2018 14:13:58 GMT -6
See if "Hairy Cup grass" is similar to what your looking at......
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 6, 2018 14:28:06 GMT -6
That's it! Do you have this stuff at your place or did you find it some other way?
Hairy Cup grass is something I've never heard of before. I should have known it is an exotic, but it sure looks like good pheasant cover to me so it could be worse. I pulled up the USDA map and it isn't listed as being present in my county, but here it is.
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Post by batman on Sept 6, 2018 15:01:09 GMT -6
Send some to SD so we can see what he does with it.
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Post by Tooln on Sept 6, 2018 19:26:35 GMT -6
Send some to SD so we can see what he does with it. He'll just blow it.
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Post by jbird on Sept 7, 2018 8:47:08 GMT -6
That's it! Do you have this stuff at your place or did you find it some other way? Hairy Cup grass is something I've never heard of before. I should have known it is an exotic, but it sure looks like good pheasant cover to me so it could be worse. I pulled up the USDA map and it isn't listed as being present in my county, but here it is. I just looked it up and dug around on the interwebs. The seed head sort of lead me to it. I don't have any that I am aware of. From what I read it is non-native from asia and is fairly uncommon, but seems to be spreading (imagine that) at least as far as IL and MN are concerned. USDA site I found shows it being introduced in MN, WI, IL, IA, MO, NE, KS. Not sure I would promote it with it being a non-native you should be able to find more suitable native plants......but we promote non-native plants all the time, so that's your call. I wasn't even sure that was what it was....but it looked close from what you showed.
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