Select information and photos for an individual forage species on the University of
Wyoming Forage Site or go to one of the other forage websites listed below each species.


Legumes

Alfalfa
(Medicago sativa)

Red Clover
(Trifolium pratense)

Alsike Clover
(Trifolium hybridum)

Yellow Sweetclover
(Melilotus officinalis)

Birdsfoot Trefoil
(Lotus corniculatus)

West Virginia
Purdue
West Virginia
Purdue

Purdue

West Virginia
Purdue
West Virginia
Purdue

Sanfoin
(Onobrychis viciifolia)

White Clover
(Trifolium repens)

Cicer Milkvetch
(Astragalis cicer)

White Sweetclover
(Melilotus alba)

George Black Medic

French Site
West Virginia
Purdue
TBA
West Virginia
Purdue
TBA



Grasses

Crested wheatgrass
(Agropyron desertorum)

Pubescent wheatgrass
(Thinopyrum intermedium)

Intermediate wheatgrass
(Thinopyrum intermedium)

Tall wheatgrass
(Thinopyrum ponticum)

Western Wheatgrass
(Thinopyrum ponticum)

North Dakota
Great Plains
Purdue
North Dakota
Great Plains
Purdue
North Dakota
Great Plains
Purdue
North Dakota
Great Plains

Meadow Creeping Foxtail
(Alopecurus arundinacea)

Smooth Bromegrass
(Bromus inermis)

Orchardgrass
(Dactylis glomerata)

Timothy
(Phleum pratense)

Tall Fescue
(Festuca arundinacea)

North Dakota
Great Plains
West Virginia
Purdue
Oregon State
North Dakota
Great Plains
West Virginia
Purdue
Oregon State

West Virginia
Purdue
West Virginia
Purdue
Oregon State

Blue Grama
(Bouteloua gracilis)

Buffalograss
(Buchloe dactyloides)

Reed canarygrass
(Phalaris arundinacea)

Russian wildrye
Psathyrostachys juncea)

Regar Bromegrass
(Bromus regar)

TBA
TBA
West Virginia
Purdue
North Dakota
Great Plains
North Dakota
Great Plains
TBA



For questions concerning forage species contact Dave Koch, Extension Forage Specialist.

Go to the Department of Plant Sciences Homepage.




This site authored, programmed and maintained by Dave Wilson.