What Do Elk Eat?

Elkweed (plant)
Pine needles
Rough fescues (grass)
Timothy (grass)
Needle and thread (grass)
Bluegrass
Elk sedge
Sweet clover (flowering plant)
Beargrass
Lupine
Sweetvetch
Arrowleaf groundsel
Aspen leaves and bark
Serviceberry
Chokecherry
Bitterbrush
Willow
Sagebrush
Mountain mahogany
Aquatic plants such as the center of cattail stems
Other grasses (Colorado has over 80 types of wild grasses)
Elk Thistle (Elk just eat the round top of the plant when it dries up in the fall)

Grass and Hay