AWNED WHEATGRASS (Agropyron subsecundum)
A cool-season grass with wheat-like spikes that are often one-sided. Awned wheatgrass may grow in clumps or form loose colonies from short rhizomes.
Grows with prairie cordgrass, big bluestem, prairie dropseed, woolly sedge, Nuttall’s sunflower, prairie loosestrife and many-flowered aster.
Life Cycle: perennial
Sun Exposure: full sun
Bloom Period: June
Height: 1.5 – 3 ft
Soil: medium to moist