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Currently, farmers are little interested to possibility of obtaining forage from river dikes. Therefore, expectations about the such as growing vegetation was changed. According to this situation vegetation growing on the river dikes should: create a small biomass above-ground, have deep root system, well-developed horizontally and well ground coverage. In order to evaluation of usefulness of the most common grass on the river dikes to keep them in a good shape, evaluated the size of the regenerative stem in relation to the biological yield. From the assessed grass species Festuca rubra was to the best to ground coverage of river dikes. This grass created a small yield, dense turf and an extensive root system.