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Tall Fescue
➹➹➹: -Widely grown in Indiana
-Widely adapted
-May cause Fescue foot or abortions in animals from an endophyte (fungus)
-Use endophyte free/resistant seed in pastures
-Coarse, low quality when mature
Summer Annuals
➹➹➹: -Sudangrass & Sorghum sudangrass
-Rapid growth and resistant to growth
Other areas and their grasses
➹➹➹: Southern:
-Common bermudagrass
-coastal bermudagrass
-dallisgrass: weedy grass, crop
forage for cattle
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,and wildlife
-bahiagrass: low protein for
grazing
-carpetgrass
Legumes
➹➹➹: -Have a stem with leaves
-Fixes nitrogen using microbes on nodules of the root
-Alfalfa
-White, red, alsike, ladino, & sweet clover
-Bird's foot trefoil
-Lespedeza
-Crownvetch
-Spybean
-Cowpea peanut
Alfalfa
➹➹➹: -Premier legume
-High protein
-High vitamins
-High calcium
-High productivity
-15-25% CP
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,-Not tolerant of continuous grazing (needs to recover)
-Hazard of bloat
-Alfalfa weevil = pest
Red Clover
➹➹➹: - similar to alfalfa
-Coarser, lower protein, lower energy, less productive
Alsike Clover
➹➹➹: -Like red clover, leafier
-Needs cool, moist climate
-Grown with timothy
White dutch clover
➹➹➹: long lived, spreading, accepts short mowing, low yield, pasture with bluegrass,
palatable
Ladino clover
➹➹➹: - giant white clover for grazing
Sweet clover
➹➹➹: -Tall, identified by yellow flower blossom
-Hay, pasture, silage
-Stemmy, leaves shatter
-Contains coumarin (mold-->dicoumerol, poor blood clotting)
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, Bird's foot trefoil
➹➹➹: - leafy like alfalfa
-not as much bloat
-not damaged by alfalfa weevil
-grows in less fertile soil
Lespedeza
➹➹➹: -reseeding, many soil conditions
-sensitive to frost, hay in south
-pasture
Crownvetch
➹➹➹: -Roadside vegatation
-Deep taproot
-bloat free
-long lived
-not good feed, unpalatable due to beta nitro propionic acid
Hairy vetch
➹➹➹: -climbing or trailing legume
- hairy stems
-eaten by livestock and wildlife
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Correct Answers Latest Update 2025 top
rated A+
Tall Fescue
➹➹➹: -Widely grown in Indiana
-Widely adapted
-May cause Fescue foot or abortions in animals from an endophyte (fungus)
-Use endophyte free/resistant seed in pastures
-Coarse, low quality when mature
Summer Annuals
➹➹➹: -Sudangrass & Sorghum sudangrass
-Rapid growth and resistant to growth
Other areas and their grasses
➹➹➹: Southern:
-Common bermudagrass
-coastal bermudagrass
-dallisgrass: weedy grass, crop
forage for cattle
1 | Page
,and wildlife
-bahiagrass: low protein for
grazing
-carpetgrass
Legumes
➹➹➹: -Have a stem with leaves
-Fixes nitrogen using microbes on nodules of the root
-Alfalfa
-White, red, alsike, ladino, & sweet clover
-Bird's foot trefoil
-Lespedeza
-Crownvetch
-Spybean
-Cowpea peanut
Alfalfa
➹➹➹: -Premier legume
-High protein
-High vitamins
-High calcium
-High productivity
-15-25% CP
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,-Not tolerant of continuous grazing (needs to recover)
-Hazard of bloat
-Alfalfa weevil = pest
Red Clover
➹➹➹: - similar to alfalfa
-Coarser, lower protein, lower energy, less productive
Alsike Clover
➹➹➹: -Like red clover, leafier
-Needs cool, moist climate
-Grown with timothy
White dutch clover
➹➹➹: long lived, spreading, accepts short mowing, low yield, pasture with bluegrass,
palatable
Ladino clover
➹➹➹: - giant white clover for grazing
Sweet clover
➹➹➹: -Tall, identified by yellow flower blossom
-Hay, pasture, silage
-Stemmy, leaves shatter
-Contains coumarin (mold-->dicoumerol, poor blood clotting)
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, Bird's foot trefoil
➹➹➹: - leafy like alfalfa
-not as much bloat
-not damaged by alfalfa weevil
-grows in less fertile soil
Lespedeza
➹➹➹: -reseeding, many soil conditions
-sensitive to frost, hay in south
-pasture
Crownvetch
➹➹➹: -Roadside vegatation
-Deep taproot
-bloat free
-long lived
-not good feed, unpalatable due to beta nitro propionic acid
Hairy vetch
➹➹➹: -climbing or trailing legume
- hairy stems
-eaten by livestock and wildlife
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