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VIRGINIA WILDRYE
Elymus virginicus L.
Uses
Livestock: Virginia wildrye (Elymus virginicus) is very palatable and nutritious, and is readily eaten by all classes of livestock in the spring and fall while it is green. It can be used in range restoration as a cool-season grass, and in native range seed mixes. It can also be used as a cool season pasture grass in shaded, wooded, or riparian areas. Virginia wildrye is a good forage producer. It can produce as much as 3,300 lbs of dry weight forage per dryland acre.
Description
Virginia wildrye is a native, cool season, perennial bunchgrass which grows two to three feet in height. It reproduces by tillering and seed. Virginia wildrye self-fertilizes, but has been known to hybridize and introgress (outcrossing depression).
