| Treatment | Class | |
| Prime | Marginal | |
| Monocultures |
|
|
| Switchgrass (SG) | 7.6 | 5.0 |
| Prairie cordgrass (PC) | 10.5 | 13.6 |
| Cup plant (CP) | 7.4 | 10.8 |
| Binary mixtures |
|
|
| SG/CP | 6.5 | 9.7 |
| PCG/CP | 8.7 | 11.6 |
| Tertiary mixture |
|
|
| SG/PCG/CP | 8.6 | 10.8 |
| lsd (0.05) | 2.6 | 3.2 |