Wildrye

Description: English: An exotic bunchgrass that does well in disturbed and revegetated settings. The basal leafy mass may be lost as the season progresses and droughty conditions prevail. Date: 21 June 2013, 16:21:49. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/35478170@N08/9567491586/. Author: Matt Lavin. Camera location44° 51′ 01.03″ N, 109° 38′ 28.77″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 44.850287; -109.641325.

Description: English: This introduced perennial bunchgrass has been used to stabilize riparian areas in and around Colorado Springs, Colorado. Date: 15 May 2015, 11:03:38. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/35478170@N08/20122823652/. Author: Matt Lavin. Camera location38° 53′ 36.66″ N, 104° 51′ 34.57″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 38.893517; -104.859603.

Description: English: Russian wildrye is restricted to the trailsides in the mountain big sagebrush steppe at the base of the Carson Range, Thomas Creek drainage, Washoe County, Nevada. Date: 26 August 2022, 10:47:21. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/35478170@N08/52502355672/. Author: Matt Lavin. Camera location39° 23′ 41.38″ N, 119° 49′ 54.85″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 39.394828; -119.831902.

Description: English: The area surrounding the northwestern entrance to Yellowstone National Park south of Gardiner, Montana, was once dominated by crested wheatgrass, Agropyron cristatum. Apparent application of herbicide and other measures to remove crested wheatgrass has resulted in the replacement with desert alyssum (Alyssum desertorum), annual wheatgrass (Eremopyrum triticeum), Russian wildrye (Elymus junceus), kochia (Kochia scoparia), and Russian thistle (Salsola tragus), to name but a few dominant exotic plant species that form nearly 100% plant cover in this entire area (Opuntia polyacantha appears to be the only native species in this converted area). Doing something rather than nothing most often results in a needless expense of time and money when it comes to managing plant diversity and plant communities. Date: 24 June 2016, 18:36:13. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/35478170@N08/27701412400/. Author: Matt Lavin. Camera location45° 01′ 44.1″ N, 110° 42′ 23.87″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 45.028918; -110.706630.

Description: English: An introduced bunchgrass that is very common in reclaimed dry land settings in the Anaconda-Butte area of Montana. The uniform arrangement of spikelets, two or three at each node, combined with the finely hairy lemmas are distinctive of this bunchgrass. Date: 26 June 2016, 17:28:01. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/35478170@N08/27967603116/. Author: Matt Lavin. Camera location46° 02′ 27.71″ N, 112° 48′ 12.49″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 46.041030; -112.803470.

Description: In this area north of Big Timber, one of the Bozoisky wildrye cultivars of Russian wildrye was planted after native sagebrush steppe was ripped out, according to Jerry Iveson of Big Timber, who knew the former owner of this land and who converted it to this expansive exotic grass stand. Bozoisky wildrye apparently contrasts in palatability to smooth brome and crested wheatgrass and other exotic perennial grasses planted in the sagebrush steppe biome. Date: 1 August 2020, 02:17. Source: Elymus junceus - Russian wildrye. Author: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA. Camera location45° 55′ 06.05″ N, 109° 45′ 24.88″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 45.918347; -109.756912.