Meadow Foxtail [Alopecurus pratensis]

Origin: Native to North America
Use: Perennial, warm season, native grass that provides fair grazing for wildlife; good grazing for livestock.
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Plant Description:
General  Characteristics of Meadow Foxtail
Life Span  Perennial
Growth Form  Tall, erect, rhizomatous grass.
Management:
Seeding Rate 
40" Rows: 
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Planting Depth  
pH requirement 5.8 to 8.0
Rainfall requirement 18 to 60 inches
Soil texture 
Sandy: 
Loam: 
Clay: 
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High
Cold Tolerance: High
General  Provides fair grazing for wildlife; good grazing for livestock.
ID Features: Leaves rolled in the bud-shoot. Sheath not compressed, glabrous, green. sometimes purplish at base, split with the broad-hyaline margins overlapping. Auricles absent. Collar medium broad, glabrous, light green or yellow, divided, oblique. Ligule coarse-membranous, faintly striate, 1.0 to 2.5 mm. long, truncate to obtuse, entire, ciliate, undulate or oblique, puberulent on back, variable in shape and margin. Blade 3 to 8 mm. wide, 10 to 15 cm. long, flat, taper-pointed, dull; upper surface scabrous and prominently ridged; midrib forming a slight keel on under surface; margins quite scabrous.
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