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Festuca paradoxa, the cluster fescue, is a cool-season grass native to Canada and the Continental United States. Like other cool-season grasses, it grows during the spring and fall, and remains dormant for the rest of the year. This helps maintain ground cover before the warm season grasses begin to grow and after they die off.
Lolium arundinaceum, tall fescue is a cool-season perennial C 3 species of grass that is native to Europe and introduced to California.It occurs on woodland margins, in grassland and in coastal marshes.
The Pooideae are the largest subfamily of the grass family Poaceae, with about 4,000 species in 15 tribes and roughly 200 genera. They include some major cereals such as wheat, barley, oat, rye and many lawn and pasture grasses. They are often referred to as cool-season grasses, because they are distributed in temperate climates. [1]
Chasmanthium latifolium, known as fish-on-a-fishing-pole, northern wood-oats, inland sea oats, northern sea oats, and river oats is a species of grass native to the central and eastern United States, Manitoba, and northeastern Mexico; it grows as far north as Pennsylvania and Michigan, [2] where it is a threatened species. [3]
Cool-season grasses, such as Kentucky bluegrass, fescues, and perennial ryegrass, planted in cold regions go dormant in winter too. A dormant lawn is not absorbing water or nutrients. There is no ...
Many of the species are important pasture plants, used extensively by grazing livestock. Kentucky bluegrass ( Poa pratensis ) is the most extensively used cool-season grass used in lawns , sports fields, and golf courses in the United States. [ 14 ]
Bromus is part of the cool-season grass lineage (subfamily Pooideae), which includes about 3300 species. Within Pooideae, Bromus is classified in tribe Bromeae (it is the only genus in the tribe). Bromus is closely related to the wheat-grass lineage (tribe Triticeae) that includes such economically important genera as Triticum (wheat), Hordeum ...
Eriocoma hymenoides (common names: Indian ricegrass and sand rice grass) is a cool-season, perennial bunchgrass. It is native to western North America. It is native to western North America. Description