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AllRefer.com - grass, Plant (Plants) - Encyclopedia (527 words) |
 | The cereal grasses, e.g., wheat, rice, corn, oats, barley, and rye, provide the grain that is the staple food of most of mankind and the major type of feed. |
| The grasses also include most of the hay and pasture plants, e.g., sorghum, timothy, bent grass, bluegrass, orchard grass, and fescue. |
| Popularly the word grass is used chiefly for these latter and for the lawn grass types; it is also loosely applied to plants which are not true grasses (e.g., clover and alfalfa) but which are similarly grown. |
| Kentucky Bluegrass lawn and grass seed - Planting Bluegrass lawns, pastures, turf grass and sports fields from seed. (818 words) |
| Bluegrass develops a shallow root system and is not a high drought tolerant grass, but it has the ability to go dormant in severe situations and can recover if watered intermittently keeping the lawn minimally growing during drought. |
| This grass has successfully spread across half of the United States and into Canada and is well known as a pasture grass for horses, cattle, and sheep throughout the areas of adaptation. |
| Bluegrass seeds are easy to harvest and has developed into one of the species with the largest number of varieties of any grass seed. |
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