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Lolium perenne, common name perennial ryegrass, [1] English ryegrass, winter ryegrass, or ray grass, is a grass from the family Poaceae. It is native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but is widely cultivated and naturalised around the world. Lolium perenne, showing ligule and ribbed leaf
Lolium multiflorum (Italian rye-grass, [2] annual ryegrass) is a ryegrass native to temperate Europe, though its precise native range is unknown. [3] It is a herbaceous annual, biennial, or perennial grass that is grown for silage, and as a cover crop. [4] [5] It is also grown as an ornamental grass.
The primary species found worldwide and used both for lawns and as a forage crop is perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne). Like many cool-season grasses of the Poaceae, it harbors a symbiotic fungal endophyte , either Epichloë or its close relative Neotyphodium , both of which are members of the fungal family Clavicipitaceae .
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Annual ryegrass is a common name for several species of ryegrass and may refer to: Lolium multiflorum , known as "annual ryegrass" in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and grown as a cover crop
They provide, through direct human consumption, just over one-half (51%) of all dietary energy; rice provides 20%, [6] wheat supplies 20%, maize (corn) 5.5%, and other grains 6%. [ citation needed ] Some members of the Poaceae are used as building materials ( bamboo , thatch , and straw ); others can provide a source of biofuel , primarily via ...
Festuca grasses are perennial and bisexual plants that are densely to loosely cespitose. Some grasses are rhizomatous , some lack rhizomes, and rarely species are stoloniferous . The culms of the grasses are typically glabrous and smooth, though some species have scabrous culms or culms that are pubescent below the inflorescences .
The following constant species are found in this community: . Common Mouse-ear (Cerastium fontanum); Crested Dog's-tail (Cynosurus cristatus); Red Fescue (Festuca rubra); Yorkshire-fog (Holcus lanatus)