Pastures plant identification Flashcards
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Mitchell grass
- 3p
- native
- decreaser
- poor digestability due to high stem ratio
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Guinea grass
- decreaser
- introduced 3p
- good feed for livestock
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Legume stylo
- increaser
- good crude protein
- good feed for livestock
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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
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Grass tree
- poor to toxic as a feed
- poor digestability
- poor palatability
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Kangaroo grass
- native 3p
- decreaser
- poor digestability
- fair in quality of pasture
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Legume Desmanthus
- decreaser
- good digestability
- good crude protein
- good palatability
- adapted to clay soils with neutral to high PH
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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
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Red Natal grass
- annual
- increaser
- poor digestability, palatability and leaf to stem ratio
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Sedge Cyprus
- An increaser weed
- poor quality pasture
- sedges have edges
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Legume Centro
- legume good source of crude protein
- decreaser
- good quality for pasture use
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Blady grass
- native not a 3p
- increaser
- poor pasture due to it being unpalatable
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Chives
- garden plant
- poor digestability and palatability
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Columbus grass
- introduced
- increaser
- poor/toxic pasture grass
- weedy sorghum hybrid
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Black spear grass
- native 3p
- increaser then decreaser
- fair palatability and digestability
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Legume siratro
- decreaser
- good palatability and digestability
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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
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Tully grass (Urochloa)
- introduced 3p
- decreaser
- good pasture quality
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Leucaena
- legume
- increaser
- very good pasture / feed
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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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Para grass
- introduced 3p
- increaser
- good palatability / digestability
- fair stem to leaf ratio
- good pasture quality
- pond pasture
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Native grass
- 2p grass
- decreaser
- good digestability, palatability
- good pasture quality
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Capillipedium
- native 3p
- probably a decrease low palatability
- fair digestability
- fair pasture quality
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Lemon grass
- not a 3p
- garden plant
- poor digestability, poor palatibility
- poor quality pasture
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Swazi grass
- introduced 3P
- increaser
- good palatability / digestability
- fair quality pasture
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Setaria grass
- introduced 3P
- decreaser
- good palatability/ digestability
- good qulity pasture
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Hymenachne
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While Clover
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Wire grass or white spear head grass
- not a 3p
- increaser
- poor palatability, digestability
- poor pasture quality
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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
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Wyn Cassia
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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)
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Pangola grass
- introduced 3p
- decreaser
- very good digestability / palatability
- good quality pasture
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Signal grass
- introduced 3P
- decreaser
- fair digestability/ palatability
- good pasture quality
- potential photosensitization in cattle and sheep
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Legume Gliricidia shrub
- decreaser
- good crude protein
- fair palatability
- good digestability
- good pasture quality
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Butterfly pea
- decreaser
- good digestability/ palatability and crude protein
- good pasture quality
- adapted to light textured soils with good rainfall
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Flinders grass
- short lived perenial
Describe what the inflorescence, rhizome, stolon and tiller are?
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Lucerne
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Sabi grass
