Grass Facts

What We Know About Invasive Annual Grasses

Click on the Wanted Poster to view the PDF and learn more about Medusahead. Click on the Wanted Poster to view the PDF and learn more about Cheatgrass.

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"Control of Downy Brome (Bromus tectorum) and Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) in Rangelands" - Controlling invasive annual grasses without damaging perennial grasses or sagebrush

"Evidence of Allelopathic Interference in an Exotic Invasive Grass, Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)" - Do medusahead seeds, awns and/or litter produce biochemicals that negatively influence its competitors?

"Control of Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) and barbed goatgrass (Aegilops triuncialis) with precision defoliation" - Controlling medusahead and goatgrass using mechanical defoliation with precise timing and intensity

Links to Additional Info about Medusahead & Cheatgrass

Medusahead

Ecology & Management of Medusahead (californiarangeland.ucdavis.edu/Weeds/MEDUSA.htm)

Invasive Species Info.gov (www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/medusahead.shtml)

Targeted Grazing (www.cnr.uidaho.edu/rx-grazing/Grasses/Medusahead.htm)

University of Montana (invader.dbs.umt.edu)

Western Society of Weed Science (www.wsweedscience.org/default.asp)

Cheatgrass

Invasipedia (wiki.bugwood.org)

Online Nevada.org (onlinenevada.org/Cheatgrass)

"The Invader That Won the West" (www.icbemp.gov/science/pellant.pdf)

USGS Profile (www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/exoticab/scotbrot.htm)

Utah State University (extension.usu.edu/range/Grasses/cheatgrass.htm)

Wikipedia Article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drooping_Brome)

Medusahead
Ecology & Management of Medusahead	(californiarangeland.ucdavis.edu/Weeds/MEDUSA.htm)
Invasive Species Info.gov	(www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/medusahead.shtml)
Targeted Grazing	(www.cnr.uidaho.edu/rx-grazing/Grasses/Medusahead.htm)
University of Montana	(invader.dbs.umt.edu)
Western Society of Weed Science	(www.wsweedscience.org/default.asp)

Cheatgrass
Invasipedia	(wiki.bugwood.org)
Online Nevada.org	(onlinenevada.org/Cheatgrass)
"The Invader That Won the West"	(www.icbemp.gov/science/pellant.pdf)
USGS Profile	(www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/exoticab/scotbrot.htm)
Utah State University	(extension.usu.edu/range/Grasses/cheatgrass.htm)
Wikipedia Article	(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drooping_Brome)