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Botany quiz #2

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Big Muddy rancher

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I will try to keep this up for a while if I can. It keeps me looking for plants and looking up plants.
See if you can ID the plant and tell us if you have it on your range.
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Hope the pictures are good enough.

For bonus point here's another one. :D
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Not got it here BMR but we had plenty in Scotland - it was what we called "soft brome" - absolute curse that took over hay fields, lowered production etc. I had a friend come out to lower mainland BC years ago and said he saw this everywhere. Interesting - I've never come across it in north America. I'm guessing this is the wrong answer and you probably call it something else here but I know that is the same plant.
 
I can't say that i recognize the grass in the first two ictres, at least not from the picture. How tall does it grow?

the last picture is Purple Prairie Clover, and perhapes Needle and Thread after the needles have fallen. The plant in the lower right corner interests me, not quit a clear enough picture to identify it for sure. It looks to me like a plant clear to the left might be Goats Beard.
 
Wild Oats I think is the first one and the second one is shame vine if its the same thing we have down here. Shame vine grows good in drought coniditions.

I was not to good at the in college, but thought I would give it a try. :wink:
 
Clarencen said:
I can't say that i recognize the grass in the first two ictres, at least not from the picture. How tall does it grow?

the last picture is Purple Prairie Clover, and perhapes Needle and Thread after the needles have fallen. The plant in the lower right corner interests me, not quit a clear enough picture to identify it for sure. It looks to me like a plant clear to the left might be Goats Beard.
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The plant I was aiming at was the Purple Prairie Clover, There is Needle and Thread in the picture. The needles are just maturing and a few in the dogs the other day. I'm not sure about the Goat's beard in the left I thought maybe right at the top center of the picture. I remember seeing some where I took the pics but wasn't trying to focus on it.I have trouble seeing in the screen on the back of the camera in the bright light. I prefer to use the a eye piece. :?

A little pasture sage at the bottom.
 
Faster horses said:
This is good and educational. Got any more, BMR?

Or anyone else????
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Oh but that would require another day of "work". :shock: It is a good game. We had a PhD student come out and catalog our ranch several years ago. Unbelievable how many different types of plants there are out there. This year one of the quarters is going into a land trust and there is a biologist out there right now doing an inventory. I will have to pay attention.
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Grassfarmer your probably think on Smooth Brome. It's considered an invasive here.
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No - we have plenty smooth brome here and it is not much like the "soft brome" I'm referring too. The Hookers oat grass you have pictured looks closer to soft brome than anything i've seen although going by the Latin names they have nothing in common, not even the same families. Oh well I guess I fail the botany class :cry: :cry:
 
the plant in the lower right corner of pic 3 looks similiar to what we call Fringed Sagewort, there are lots of common names given to plants so it is hard to be called wrong. The plant on the left I mentiond, after another look it looks like a thistle. Might be Goats Beard or Wild Salsify near the top. it has long slender leaves.

I will see if I can find a few pictures of plantsand try to post a few.
 
Clarencen said:
the plant in the lower right corner of pic 3 looks similiar to what we call Fringed Sagewort, there are lots of common names given to plants so it is hard to be called wrong. The plant on the left I mentiond, after another look it looks like a thistle. Might be Goats Beard or Wild Salsify near the top. it has long slender leaves.

I will see if I can find a few pictures of plantsand try to post a few.
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That would be great Clarence cause it won't take long to exhaust my plant ID knowledge. :oops: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Grassfarmer said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
Grassfarmer your probably think on Smooth Brome. It's considered an invasive here.
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No - we have plenty smooth brome here and it is not much like the "soft brome" I'm referring too. The Hookers oat grass you have pictured looks closer to soft brome than anything i've seen although going by the Latin names they have nothing in common, not even the same families. Oh well I guess I fail the botany class :cry: :cry:
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I think what he is talking about might be what we call Downy Brome. We have it here, and a nastier grass I don't know about. Cows won't eat it once it heads out and it chokes out anything good in the hayfield, even crested wheat won't compete with it, but it doesn't seem to be able to compete against quack grass :shock: :lol:

I could pull up some shots of native plants (flowers mostly) if anyone is interested....
 
leanin' H said:
Here's an easy one! Any guess's? It has already went to seed as this was taken last fall.
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I don't see you in the picture. :? :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P


Some type of bunchgrass but don't know the name. Long as a cow gets fat on it it's a good weed. :D
 

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