Grass awns from weeds like cheatgrass and foxtail first become attached to a dog s coat while running or walking through these tall grasses.
Grass awn images.
In botany an awn is either a hair or bristle like appendage on a larger structure or in the case of the asteraceae a stiff needle like element of the pappus.
The height of many dogs lines up well with the location of the seed pods on the grasses and contact with the grass allows the sharp lightweight grass awns to stick to the dog.
Whether you call them awns mean seeds timothy foxtails cheat grass june grass downy brome or any other number of colloquial names to dogs they generally mean one thing and that s trouble.
An awn is a hairy or bristle like appendage growing from the ear or flower of barley rye and many types of widely growing grasses.
However you can quickly identify individual species of grass by examining them up close.
In grasses awns typically extend from the lemmas of the florets this often makes the hairy appearance of the grass synfloresce.
The grasses in my yard are pennisetum alopecuroides hameln and maudry.
Read on to find out the botanical names of grasses see pictures and read descriptions of the most popular types of.
He alerted me to the dangers of these things and how they can cause serious injury.
Types of lawn grass with pictures and names looking at pictures of sod or turfgrass it s easy to think that all grasses look the same.