Title: California grasslands and range forage grasses
Identifier: californiagrassl0724samp (find matches)
Year: 1951 (1950s)
Authors: Sampson, Arthur W. (Arthur William), 1884-1967; Hedrick, Donald W; Chase, Agnes, 1869-1963
Subjects: Grasses; Forage plants
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : California Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture, University of California
Contributing Library: University of California, Davis Libraries
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Fig. 22. Red bromegrass (Bromus rubens). Forage value: Investigators on the San Joaquin Experimental Range (61) found that red brome furnishes fair feed during the winter, but that after maturity the herbage is not sought by livestock. The awns are rigid but not especially injuri- ous. Chemical analysis of the forage sam- ples collected on the Experimental Range revealed red brome to have about the same nutritional value as soft chess (13). 13. DOWNY CHESS (Bromus tectorum), also called cheatgrass, June brome, forms dense tufts 1-2 ft (30-60 cm) tall, the whole plant softly hairy; panicle many- flowered, mostly 10—12 cm long, the hairy spikelets nodding on flexuous branches. A native of the Mediterranean region. (Fig. 23.) Distribution and habitat: Downy chess occurs principally on lava plateaus in northeastern California and to a lesser extent in the annual foothill type in the central and southern portion of the state. It grows on the poorer soils in the semi-

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