Grasslands Plant ID

Grasses

-mini broom

Foxtail barley

-whips

Needle-and-thread grass

-forks

Red three-awn

-thick, hairy, seedy top

-thicker leaves

Yellow bristlegrass

-cute little rice grains

Bluebunch wheatgrass

-thick, cartoon

Giant wildrye

-fishtail

Crested wheatgrass

-squiggly

-seeds with spike

-otherwise pretty small and plain

Stiff needlegrass

-jump frogs

-spiky little tufts

Cheatgrass

-thin cartoon

-looks like it tastes bad

Quackgrass

-delicate little fairy/mini tree

-florescence opens and closes

-golden arches

Sand dropseed

-bushy grass

-squiggly seeds

Common witchgrass

Asters

White clover

Alfalfa

Spotted knapweed

Diffuse knapweed

-string-y

Common rabbitbrush

Arrow-leaf balsamroot

Sages

Big sagebrush

Three-tip sage

Pasture sage

Terragon

Other forbs and shrubs

Black hawthorn

Saskatoon

Antelope bush

Snowberry

Snowbrush

Wax currant

Bull thistle

White clematis

Tall Oregon grape

Smooth sumac

Sweet bedstraw

Chocolate lily

Nodding onion

Indian hemp

Prairie rose

Showy milkweed

Great mullein

Dalmatian toadflax

Snow buckwheat

Brittle prickly-pear cactus

Sagebrush mariposa lily

Fire moss

Yarrow

Yellow salsify