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The seeds of E. angustifolium are adapted to wind-dispersal. Eriophorum angustifolium is a hardy , herbaceous , rhizomatous , perennial plant , [ 14 ] meaning that it is resilient to cold and freezing climatic conditions, dies back at the end of its growing season , has creeping rootstalks, and lives for over two years.
Themeda triandra is a species of C 4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific. [2] In Australia it is commonly known as kangaroo grass [3] and in East Africa and South Africa it is known as red grass and red oat grass or as rooigras in Afrikaans.
Syringodium filiforme, commonly known as manatee grass, is a species of marine seagrass. It forms meadows in shallow sandy or muddy locations in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, and is also found in the Bahamas and Bermuda. [1] [2] It occurs to a depth of about 20 m (66 ft), and even deeper where water is very clear. [1]
Cenchrus purpureus (or napier grass) is a monocot C4 perennial grass in the family Poaceae. [4] It is tall and forms in robust bamboo-like clumps. [2] It is a heterozygous plant, but seeds rarely fully form; more often it reproduces vegetatively through stolons which are horizontal shoots above the soil that extend from the parent plant to ...
In the United States, Johnson grass is listed as either a noxious or quarantined weed in 19 states. [6] With Sorghum bicolor it is a parent of Sorghum × almum, a forage crop also considered a weed in places. [7] It is named after an Alabama plantation owner, Colonel William Johnson, who sowed its seeds on river-bottom farm land circa 1840. The ...
Teff (Amharic: ጤፍ), also known as Eragrostis tef, Williams lovegrass, [1] or annual bunch grass, [2] is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to Ethiopia, where it first originated in the Ethiopian Highlands. [3] [4] It is cultivated for its edible seeds, also known as teff. Teff was one of the earliest plants domesticated.
The two companies were united under the name Federal-Hoffman, Inc and taken private during the sale. However, in 1988, Pentair Inc., a diversified manufacturer based in Minnesota, agreed to acquire FC Holdings Inc., the holding company for Federal-Hoffman Inc., for $175 million in cash and the assumption of debt. [6]
The 2020–present United States ammunition shortage is the most recent of all the ammunition shortages in the United States.It arose out of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the 2020 United States presidential election, and the George Floyd protests.