Plant ID

Anthemideae - Artemisia cana - silver sagebrush.

characterized by its silver-gray leaves and aromatic foliage. Linear leaves with linear vein going up and down.

Anthemideae - artemisia cana- silver sagebrush

Anthemideae - Artemisia Filifolia - Sand Sagebrush.

leaves give needle like rosemary , inflorescene on it are like little balls.

Anthemideae - artemisia filifolia - sand sagebrush

Anthemidieae - Artemisia frigida - fringed sagebrush

Leaves divided, filiform, fascicled, hairy, woody base

Anthemidieae - Artemisia frigida - fringed sagebrush

Anthemideae - Artemisia Nova - Black sagebrush

3 lobed , inflorescene / flowers above leaves, black glands at the tip of the lobes

Anthemideae - artemisia nova - black sagebrush

Anthemideae - Artemisia tridentata - big sagebrush

tri lobed, however the leaf is longer like than a wider 3 lobed artemisia nova leaf, shreddy bark grayish, leaves and flowers usually mix , bigger

Anthemideae - Artemisia tridentata - big sagebrush

Anthemideae - Artemesia ludoviciana - cudweed sagewort

Leaves entire, dentate and/or lobed (regional variation),

Anthemideae - Artemesia ludoviciana- cudweed sagewort

Anthemideae - Achillea millefolium - Western yarrow

Finely dissected, pubescent leaves (fern-like) , lots of little leaves, white flowers

Anthemideae - Achillea millefolium - Western yarrow

Eragrosteae - Distichlis spicata - inland saltgrass

• Alternate leaves, 45° angle, scaly rhizome ,

distichlis spicata

Eragrosteae - Sporobolus airoides - alkali sacaton.

big open panicles, collars not hairy, huge roots, very small spikelet

Eragrosteae - Sporobolus airoides - alkali sacaton.

Eragrosteae - calamovilfa longifolia - prairie sandreed

Long leaves and inflorescence • Rhizomes stout and scaly , • 1 floret/spikelet • No awn • Short internodes

Eragrosteae - calamovilfa longifolia - prairie sandreed

Eragrosteae - Redfieldia flexuosa - blowout grass

bendy, Open panicle • Long, shredded leaves and base (sand blasted) , Hair in spikelet • Spikelet V-shaped, florets “banana shaped” , Roots: multilayered with many nodes

Eragrosteae - Redfieldia flexuosa - blowout grass

Eragrosteae - Muhlenbergia Montana - Mountain Muhly

Long, wavy awns, terminal, muhly spikelet, tight panicle, 3 toothed second glume “frog foot”

Eragrosteae - Muhlenbergia Montana - Mountain Muhly

Eragrosteae - Muhlenbergia porteri - bush muhly

• Spreading bent culms (brush like) • Short internodes, Zig-zag culm • Mature panicle open • Dark spikelets, long glumes • Very delicate awn • Open, diffuse panicle

Eragrosteae - Muhlenbergia porteri - bush muhly

Eragrosteae - Muhlenbergia torreyi - ring muhly

• Wide panicle (open, diffuse) • Decumbent base, basal leaves that curl • Black lemma, fine awn • Glumes less than half the length of the floret

Eragrosteae - Muhlenbergia torreyi - ring muhly

Eragrosteae - Eragrostis curvula - weeping lovegrass

• Perennial • Introduced • Hairy Ligule • Green inflorescence • Pilose axils (hairy armpits) when mature; hair in axil of panicle pedicel. • Knotty base

Eragrosteae - Eragrostis curvula - weeping lovegrass

Eragrosteae - Eragrostis trichodes - sand lovegrass

Long pedicels (wide open panicle), • Purple/reddish inflorescence • Spikelets shorter, more pyramid shaped • Spikelets mostly terminal , Sparsely pilose in axil, but not as much as E. curvula

Eragrosteae - Eragrostis trichodes - sand lovegrass

Eragrosteae - Leptochloa dubia - green sprangletop

Alternate panicle branches , • Awnless • Stacked V-florets • Lemmas truncate (blunt), usually with a notch

Eragrosteae - Leptochloa dubia - green sprangletop

Eragrosteae - Sporobolus compositus - tall dropseed

• Contracted panicle, usually enclosed at base by the sheath • May have missile rhizomes, often with a woody base • Largest Sporobolus spikelets • 1 floret/spikelet • Glumes keeled with green mid-nerve

Eragrosteae - Sporobolus compositus - tall dropseed

Eragrosteae - Sporobolus cryptandrus - sand dropseed

• Panicle with tiny spikelets • Inflorescence often included in the sheath , Hairy collar

Eragrosteae - Sporobolus cryptandru - sand dropseed

Eragrosteae - Blepharoneuron tricholepis - pine dropseed

• Glumes are blue-green, translucent and rounded • Basal leaves; leaves can curl (usually 2 round “sweeps”) No awns

Eragrosteae - Blepharoneuron tricholepis - pine dropseed

Eragrosteae - Scleropogon brevifolius - burrograss

• Low growing, sharp slender, twisted leaves with white collar • Dioecious (female spikelets have long awns, males with no awns) Stoloniferous (wiry) with basal leaves

Eragrosteae - Scleropogon brevifolius - burrograss