Smooth Stalked Meadowgrass- Identification and Usefulness in Horse Pastures

Pasture has the potential to provide
1. The horses nutrition
2. A Safe exercise area
Potentials rarely achieved, often neglected

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Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass (Kentucky Blue Grass) Poa pratensis.

Drought resistance
Good response to fertilisers

Uses for Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass

Useful on light land or dry areas though its palatibility may be low.

Physical Characteristics of Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass

No auricles
Short rounded ligule
Shoot slightly flattened.
Leaf blades smooth above and below, with a groove either side of central line on upper surface .
Leaf blades "boat shaped" at tip.
Rhizomes often present
Inflorescence - spreading panicle.

Pasture Management
for
Horses

Grasses

Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass (Kentucky Blue Grass) Poa pratensis.

Uses for Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass

Physical Characteristics of Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass

Pasture Management for Horses

Grasses

Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass (Kentucky Blue Grass) Poa pratensis.

Uses for Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass

Physical Characteristics of Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass

Pasture Management
for
Horses