Index / Search / Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata
§1 Plant
Pseudoroegneria spicata (Pursh) Á. Löve ssp. spicata
vernacular bluebunch wheatgrass — subspecies · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Pseudoroegneria
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 114 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–35 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.6–8.4
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Green
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 125,680
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 114 counties across 10 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Ada 16001
- Adams 16003
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Bingham 16011
- Blaine 16013
- Boise 16015
- Bonner 16017
- Bonneville 16019
- Boundary 16021
- Butte 16023
- Camas 16025
- Canyon 16027
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Clearwater 16035
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Franklin 16041
- Fremont 16043
- Gooding 16047
- Idaho 16049
- Kootenai 16055
- Latah 16057
- Lemhi 16059
- Lincoln 16063
- Minidoka 16067
- Nez Perce 16069
- Oneida 16071
- Owyhee 16073
- Power 16077
- Shoshone 16079
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
- Washington 16087
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Weber 49057
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PSSPS ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705699 ↗Record version
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