Indian ricegrass and pine nuts were important crops. Piptatherum is a genus of plants in the grass family known as ricegrass. The shrub understory includes warm-season grasses, such as Indian ricegrass and galleta grass. Basin sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, bluebunch wheatgrass, needlegrass, bluegrass, and Indian ricegrass are also present. Some of these grasses include blue and black grama, big galleta, Indian ricegrass and three-awns. They used amaranth, ricegrass, cactus fruit, beeweed flowers, and cattails for flour. Grasses include galleta ("Hilaria jamesii") and Indian ricegrass ("Acnatherum hymenoides"). Indian ricegrass ("Oryzopsis hymenoides") and needlegrass ("Stipa" spp.) were the most important grasses consumed. Great Basin wildrye, Indian ricegrass, cheatgrass, Idaho fescue, needle-and-thread grass, snowberry, and serviceberry. Species from this genus are commonly called ricegrass. Needle-and-thread grass ("Stipa comata") and Indian ricegrass ("Oryzopsis hymenoides") are preferred grasses.