2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
As we know, meadows cover large areas. They can be found both on the plains and in the mountains, where they form independent belts. These open, unforested areas are especially charming in summer. The beauty of their flower carpet is inimitable
Meadows of different types differ well in the composition of plants. But there is also a group of meadow grasses that adapt to the conditions of both wetter and steppe meadows. Many forest plants can also be found in the meadows. The species composition of meadows is very diverse.
In summer in the meadow there is a lush colorful carpet of herbs with brightly colored flowers (geraniums, bells, buttercups). There are a lot of legumes here: clover, lyadvenets, etc. In terms of diversity, they are not inferior to cereals (fescue, timothy, etc.) and sedges (sad sedge, etc.). These are the main economic groups of meadow plants. Basically, all meadow grasses are perennials. For them, the aboveground part dies off for the winter, only a few, mainly sedges and grasses, winter green. Let's note the most typical meadow plants.
Cereals
A large group of meadow plants. Their composition includes more than 100 species. This is a valuable part of the herbage. The more of them, the higher the quality of the meadows, although some of them are of little value (whitebeard, pike). Cereals in everyday life are called grass. It is quite easy to recognize them by a hollow straw with thickenings in the nodes. In swampy meadows, they give way to sedges.
By the nature of the root systems, cereals are divided into three main types:
- rhizome (wheatgrass, meadow bluegrass), - loose shrubs (timothy, meadow fescue), - turf (dense bush) - sheep fescue and others.
Their flowers form inflorescences: spikelets, a complex ear, a panicle, a cylindrical inflorescence - a sultan. Characteristic cereal
sweet spike has "special signs": loose, like a disheveled ear and a specific smell, which is better felt when rubbing the stem or foliage. This smell, reminiscent of fresh hay, is due to the presence of the fragrant coumarin.
The easiest to recognize from meadow grains
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by a kind of paniculate inflorescence, consisting exactly of individual lumps, dense clusters of spikelets. We also recognize it by its flattened escape. Blooms all summer. Good forage plant.
The characteristic appearance of
timothy girls meadow and alpine with a narrow-cylindrical inflorescence. Looks like her
foxtail meadow. It differs from other cereals in its shallow root depth. Outwardly, it resembles timothy, but has a soft inflorescence - a sultan. It is characterized by early development. Good hay and pasture plant. In the alpine belt, glacial and silky foxtails are found.
Common on plain meadows
creeping wheatgrass Is a perennial plant with good forage qualities. The best feeds include
bonfires boneless, coastal and variegated - inhabitants of subalpine meadows.
Fescue variegated or Voronova, perhaps the most common meadow plant. Those who were in the mountains probably paid attention to its large clumps, forming variegated oysters. Dzhimil fescue is also found on rocky slopes and moraines in the highlands. In the meadows, there are Caucasian fescue, furrowed fescue, etc.
Best Grassland Plant
meadow bluegrassforming an emerald turf carpet. Original
medium shaker with an unusual inflorescence of spikelets on long peduncles. In wet meadows it is common
meadow, or
turfy pike … Does not represent a great feed value.
In meadows of numerous cereals, there are also
hard chaff, forest short-legged, violet barley, transsylvanian pearl barley, finger pig, bent grass, reed reed and
terrestrial and others. In places where groundwater is released, common reed Is the largest grain in our flora.
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Legumes. Economically, legumes are more valuable than cereals. Combine legume families with characteristic complex, usually trifoliate leaves (clover) or tendrils (vetch)
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Meadow species of the family of norichnikovyh are interesting, we are talking about mullein: purple and yellow-flowered, spreading and cotton, and others; flaxseed: Caucasian, Meyer (endemic to the Central Caucasus), etc.; norichniki: small, rocky, soft (growing on rocks and under their cover) and others; veronica: widespread spring and gentian, spicate, shallow highland inhabitant, key - living in damp places and shallow water bodies
