Natural Resources Conservation Service

United States Department of Agriculture

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In the eastern United States ’Cape’ American beachgrass is widely used to stabilize dunes that prote

Wildfires: Plant Species for Reseeding

Wildfire Protection and Restoration

The following plant species are commonly used for reseeding in the western US after wildfires. Click on the species name below to access the Plant Fact Sheet or Plant Guide to get information on the use, establishment and management of the species.

Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)
Achnatherum hymenoides (Indian ricegrass)
Agropyron desertorum (desert wheatgrass)
Agropyron fragile (Siberian wheatgrass)
Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush)
Atriplex canescens (fourwing saltbush)
Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grama)
Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama)
Dactylis glomerata (orchardgrass)
Elymus canadensis (Canada wildrye)
Elymus trachycaulus (slender wheatgrass)
Elymus wawawaiensis (Snake River wheatgrass)
Eragrostis curvula (weeping lovegrass)
Festuca trachyphylla (Hard fescue)
Leymus cinereus (basin wildrye)
Linum perenne (blue flax)
Lotus corniculatus (birdsfoot trefoil)
Medicago sativa (alfalfa)
Muhlenbergia rigens (deergrass)
Onobrychis viciifolia (sanfoin)
Panicum virgatum (switchgrass)
Pascopyron smithii (western wheatgrass)
Penstemon eatonii (Eaton's penstemon)
Penstemon palmeri (Palmer's penstemon)
Penstemon venustus (Venus penstemon)
Phleum pratense (Timothy)
Poa secunda (Sandberg bluegrass)
Pseudoroegneria spicata (bluebunch wheatgrass)
Sanguisorba minor (small burnet)
Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)
Sporobolus airoides (alkali sacaton)
Thinopyrum intermedium (Intermediate wheatgrass/Pubescent wheatgrass)
Trifolium hybridum (Alsike clover)
Trifolium pratense (red clover)
Trifolium repens (white clover/white dutch clover)
Agropyron cristatum ssp. pectinatum