Green Sprangletop (Leptochloa Dubia)

Green Sprangletop is a native, warm season perennial, bunchgrass that is primarily used for grazing and erosion control. It is highly palatable and nutritious to all classes of livestock.  

Green Sprangletop is extremely drought tolerant.  It grows two to three and a half feet tall. It is cold and drought tolerant.  This is a short lived grass, but because if its fast germination, quick growth and easy establishment, it maintains itself well.  

Green Spangletop is most often used in range and reclamation blends as a nurse crop for other species providing for other slower growing grasses.  Green Sprangletop grows well on rocky sites as well as rocky soils.   It is adapted throughout Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Southeast Arizona and Florida.  

It is a popular grass among wildlife enthusiasts because of the size of the seed for food and density of forage for habitat.  Seed in March or April 1/4 to 1/2 inch deep in a well prepared seed bed at 2 pure live seed pounds per acre on rangeland. The seeds are rough and can be placed using a regular type seed drill.