Yield, Yield Distribution, and Forage Quality of Warm-Season Perennial Grasses Grown for Pasture or Biofuel in the Southern Great Plains

Table 3

Dry matter yield by harvest month of fifteen warm-season perennial grasses in 2005 near Ardmore, OK, USA.

Species	Yield (kg ha^−1)
	May	June	Aug.	Oct.	Total
Alamo switchgrass	8926^a†	—	6757^a	3557^cd	19240^a
Blue panicgrass	996^e	1129^c	4691^b	3023^d	9839^cde
Blackwell switchgrass	5173^bc	—	3908^bc	—	9081^de
Dallisgrass	—	4685^a	—	5020^bc	9705^cde
Ermelo weeping lovegrass	5444^b	—	4039^bc	3195^d	12678^bcde
Carostan flaccidgrass	4986^bc	—	4834^ab	2212^d	12032^bcde
Johnsongrass	4855^bc	—	3195^bc	2462^d	10512^bcde
Selection 75 kleingrass	6030^b	—	5189^ab	2751^d	13970^b
Lometa indiangrass	—	5392^a	—	5677^ab	11069^bcde
Midland 99 bermudagrass	5970^b	—	4445^b	2951^d	13366^bc
Morpa weeping lovegrass	4201^cd	—	3862^bc	2854^d	10917^bcde
Pensacola bahiagrass	3182^d	1514^bc	3640^bc	2778^d	11114^bcde
Plains bluestem	—	4311^ab	—	3141^d	7452^e
Sand Mountain bahiagrass	2785^d	—	2221^c	2561^d	7567^e
WW-B. Dahl old world bluestem	—	4688^a	—	7063^a	11751^bcd
Mean	4777	3620	4253	3518	11353

— indicates that the species was not harvested that month.
^†Means within column followed by the same letter are not significantly different at 𝑃≤0.05.