Index / Search / Scolochloa festucacea
§1 Plant
Scolochloa festucacea (Willd.) Link
vernacular common rivergrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Scolochloa
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 65 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 95 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–35 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–8
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 4.9 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 175,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 65 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Bottineau 38009
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Cavalier 38019
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Emmons 38029
- Griggs 38039
- Hettinger 38041
- Logan 38047
- McHenry 38049
- McIntosh 38051
- McLean 38055
- Mercer 38057
- Mountrail 38061
- Oliver 38065
- Pembina 38067
- Ramsey 38071
- Ransom 38073
- Richland 38077
- Rolette 38079
- Sargent 38081
- Steele 38091
- Stutsman 38093
- Ward 38101
- Wells 38103
- Williams 38105
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SCFE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289769 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
fetched 2026-05-26T12:30:10Z