Alkaligrass is often used on roadsides where salting is carried out for the purpose of snow and ice removal. Very common on Highway right of ways. Foxtail barley is a cool-season perennial grass found throughout the United States except in the southeast. The seedhead of foxtail barley is a spike with one-flowered spikelets and extremely long awns . Foxtail barley germinates early in spring and is a persistent pest in semiarid areas.
Populations are usually light, but well dispersed.
Dallisgrass is a warm-season perennial. It is coarse-bladed and light yellow. Dallisgrass is one of the first grasses to begin growth in the spring. It occurs extensively throughout the warm, humid region. The seeds are borne on a tightly branched raceme seedhead with rows of four tightly grouped spikelets.