Western Wheatgrass

Western Wheatgrass

Taxobox | name = Western Wheatgrass



image_width = 200px
regnum = Plantae
phylum = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Poales
familia = Poaceae
subfamilia = Pooideae
genus = "Pascopyrum"
species = "P. smithii"
binomial = "Pascopyrum smithii"

Western Wheatgrass ("Pascopyrum smithii") is a common grass that grows in most of the US. It is the state grass of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

External links

*http://www.lib.ksu.edu/wildflower/westernwheat.html
*http://www.northern.edu/natsource/GRASSES/Wester1.htm


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