Pastures plant identification Flashcards
(41 cards)
1
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Mitchell grass
- 3p
- native
- decreaser
- poor digestability due to high stem ratio
2
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Guinea grass
- decreaser
- introduced 3p
- good feed for livestock
3
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Legume stylo
- increaser
- good crude protein
- good feed for livestock
4
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Buffel grass ?
- introduced 3P
- good for feed (flowering so quality decreases going into the dry season
- may induce big head in horses
5
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Grass tree
- poor to toxic as a feed
- poor digestability
- poor palatability
6
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Kangaroo grass
- native 3p
- decreaser
- poor digestability
- fair in quality of pasture
7
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Legume Desmanthus
- decreaser
- good digestability
- good crude protein
- good palatability
- adapted to clay soils with neutral to high PH
8
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Grass Indian Couch
- 2P not highly productive
- exotic grazing tolerant grass
- increaser
- poor quality pasture
- salt tolerant, and able to stabilise foreshores dunes and salt plains
9
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Red Natal grass
- annual
- increaser
- poor digestability, palatability and leaf to stem ratio
10
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Sedge Cyprus
- An increaser weed
- poor quality pasture
- sedges have edges
11
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Legume Centro
- legume good source of crude protein
- decreaser
- good quality for pasture use
12
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Blady grass
- native not a 3p
- increaser
- poor pasture due to it being unpalatable
13
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Chives
- garden plant
- poor digestability and palatability
14
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Columbus grass
- introduced
- increaser
- poor/toxic pasture grass
- weedy sorghum hybrid
15
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Black spear grass
- native 3p
- increaser then decreaser
- fair palatability and digestability
16
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Legume siratro
- decreaser
- good palatability and digestability
17
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Sorghum
- suited to the moonsonal wet tropics
- bottom picture moonsonal sorghum of the tropics
- potentially toxic may contain small amounts of cyanide
18
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Tully grass (Urochloa)
- introduced 3p
- decreaser
- good pasture quality
19
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Leucaena
- legume
- increaser
- very good pasture / feed
20
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Rats tail
- not a 3p
- increaser
- poor palatability and digestability
- fair protein
- high stem to leaf ratio
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22
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Para grass
- introduced 3p
- increaser
- good palatability / digestability
- fair stem to leaf ratio
- good pasture quality
- pond pasture
23
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Native grass
- 2p grass
- decreaser
- good digestability, palatability
- good pasture quality
24
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Capillipedium
- native 3p
- probably a decrease low palatability
- fair digestability
- fair pasture quality
25
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Lemon grass
* not a 3p
* garden plant
* poor digestability, poor palatibility
* poor quality pasture
26
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Swazi grass
* introduced 3P
* increaser
* good palatability / digestability
* fair quality pasture
27
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Setaria grass
* introduced 3P
* decreaser
* good palatability/ digestability
* good qulity pasture
28
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Hymenachne
29
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While Clover
30
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Wire grass or white spear head grass
* not a 3p
* increaser
* poor palatability, digestability
* poor pasture quality
31
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Legume - Forage pinto peanut Arachis
* decreaser
* good digestability/ palatability
* good crude protein
* good pasture quality
* adapted to light textured soils with good rainfall
32
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Wyn Cassia
33
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Grader grass
* not a 3p
* increaser
* poor stem to leaf ratio
* poor palatability, digestability
* high DM kg/ha
* poor quality diet ( mature alot of dry stem)
34
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Pangola grass
* introduced 3p
* decreaser
* very good digestability / palatability
* good quality pasture
35
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Signal grass
* introduced 3P
* decreaser
* fair digestability/ palatability
* good pasture quality
* potential photosensitization in cattle and sheep
36
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Legume Gliricidia shrub
* decreaser
* good crude protein
* fair palatability
* good digestability
* good pasture quality
37
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Butterfly pea
* decreaser
* good digestability/ palatability and crude protein
* good pasture quality
* adapted to light textured soils with good rainfall
38
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Flinders grass
* short lived perenial
39
Describe what the inflorescence, rhizome, stolon and tiller are?
40
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Lucerne
41
Identify this plant ?
Sabi grass
