Agropyron is a perennial herbaceous flower. It usually blooms in summer. The ice grass can purify the air. It can be used for medicinal purposes. It is easy to grow ice grass. It does not require professional breeding knowledge. Please refer to this page for the cultivation of ice grass. Method and other knowledge.
Introduction of ice grass
Ice grass alias wild wheat, flat ear ice grass, feathery wheatgrass. Agropyron is a perennial dry grass in the grass family and is one of the most important pastures in temperate arid regions.
Ice grass can grow on dry grass, hillsides, hills, and sand. Due to its good quality, rich nutrition, and good palatability, all kinds of livestock are fond of eating; and because of the early return to green, it can provide green fodder for grazing livestock earlier.
Agropyron has special characteristics such as drought resistance, cold tolerance, grazing resistance, and high yield. It plays an important role in reseeding grazing land and establishing artificial grassland on dry land. Because the roots of the grass are whisker-like, dense, sand-covered and deep-seated, it is also a good soil and water conservation plant and sand-fixing plant.
Morphological characteristics of ice grass
The ice grass is a perennial herbaceous plant in the cold season. The stalk is sparsely clumped. The upper part of the inflorescence is pubescent or glabrous, 20-60 (75) cm high, and sometimes the roots are 10 cm apart.
The leaves of the iced grass are 5-15 (20) cm long and 2-5 mm wide. They are hard and rough, often curled inside, and the upper veins strongly bulge into longitudinal grooves, and the veins are densely covered with tiny short bristles. Spikes are thicker, oblong or narrow at both ends, 2-6 cm long and 8-15 mm wide; spikelets are closely arranged in parallel in two rows, neatly dentate, containing (3) 5-7 florets , 5-9 (12) mm long; skull-shaped, ridged and puberulent pubescent, pubescent 2-3 mm long, second 3-4 mm long, slightly shorter than stellate The lateral malleolus is densely villous or sparsely pubescent, with a short apex 2-4 mm at the apex; short bristles on the medial ridge.
Most of the ice grasses are cross-pollinated polyploids, which are usually divided into two types: erect type and rhizome type. Except for a few species with particularly developed rhizomes, the grass has good firmness and high seed yield and quality. The ice grass has a top spike, the spikelets contain multiple small flowers, the spikelets are sessile, and the solitary (individually paired) cling to the cob.
The ice grass has a rhizome that extends and traverses. The stalk is solitary or clumped, erect, 40-100 cm tall, 3-5 knots, smooth glabrous, or densely pubescent under inflorescence. Leaf-sheaths smooth and glabrous, or ciliate at young edges; leaf membranous, truncated, 1-1.5 mm long; leaf length 5-30 cm, width 4-7 mm, flat or involute, upper and margin rough or with Short pilose, smooth or slightly rough underneath.
Spikes of ice grass, erect, 10-15(-24) cm long, 10-17 mm wide, gray-green; rachis pubescent, pubescent at nodes and margin, 3-7 mm internode, base Up to 20mm; spikelets are usually 2-3, thin 1 or 4 are born in each section, length 10-20mm, containing 4-7 (-10) small flowers; small cob internode length 1-1.5mm, short post Hairy; stellate shorter than spikelets, linear-lanceolate, apex narrow as awning, not covering the base of the first lemma, with inconspicuous 3 veins, upper part rough, margin ciliate, 1st stellate shorter than 2 glutamate, 8-15 mm long; lemma-lanceolate, marginal membranous, apex acuminate or 1-3 mm long, 5-locule, pubescent or upper part glabrous, base long About 1 mm of pilose, the first outer iliac crest is 8-10 (-14) mm long, the inner iliac crest is equal to the outer iliac crest, the apex is often 2-lobed, the upper part of the ridge is ciliated; the anther is 3.5-4 mm long.
Ice grass flower, fruit period from June to October.
Ecological habits of ice grass
Ice grass adapts to a semi-humid to arid climate and grows in arid grasslands or desert grasslands. Natural cherries rarely form simple vegetation, often mixed with other grasses, bryophytes, non-grass plants, and shrubs. Born in dry grass, hillsides, hills, and sand.
Agropyron is particularly resistant to drought, cold, grazing, and high yield. Most species adapt to the semi-humid to arid climate and grow in arid grasslands and desert grasslands.
Ecological environment: often born in sandy land, plain green state, and mountain grassland belt.
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