Boy wouldn't that stink! Whatever it is looks like he got a good stand. Well sort of depends I guess.....TexasBred":2ydmu03g said:I know nothing about the other seeds in the guarantee but this looks like plain old Johnson grass to me. That's using the SWAG method.
My thoughts also. Climate variables will bring out stuff that you've never seen before. This year we have timothy all over the place, never has been any before. A couple of years ago we had a type of ragweed that is pretty much unknown in MO. Had it in bunch of places, haven;t seen it since that one year.Bigfoot":1evcr7qo said:That is what we call barnyard grass. I kinda like it myself. Graze it, or cut it for hay, before it all goes to seed. It seems to be more palatable to them when it's in a juvenile stage. You've probably always had it, but a wet year brings it to life.
:lol: It was a guess.Rafter S":10cmaelj said:I hate to disagree with a fellow Texan, but that's not Johnson grass. The seed heads don't look right. The seeds are too round and too close together, and growing as green and lush as that is Johnson grass won't go to seed until it's 3 or 4 feet tall.
BryanM":1bt811sc said:I thought it might be Johnson grass too. But after Dun said barnyardgrass, I think he may be right. We have been extremely wet and where this grass really took off has been really wet spots.
So if its barnyard grass in the pasture whats my course of action? herbicide? mow? not sure what to do next?
is it harmful to preg cows?
I'm no wizard but the strange looking seed heads was the dead giveaway for me. The almost look like they're kind of thorny or prickly looking.Karin":1trjzq56 said:NOT Dallisgrass (Paspalum dilatatum), I concur with others that this is barnyard grass (Echinochloa crusgalli). The seed head is all wrong to be DG. Dallis' seed heads are more spread out, not so close together and angled up like with Barnyard grass. Dallisgrass reminds me more of Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis) with more of the "stems" than Bouteloua would have and certainly not blue like Bouetoula. Barnyard grass and that grass in the OP, by appearances alone, looks like it crossed with slough grass (Beckmannia syzigachne) and a large sedge.
For pictures and physical descriptive comparison, this is for barnyard grass: http://extension.psu.edu/pests/weeds/we ... nyardgrass
and for dallisgrass: http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS/dallisgrass.html
And I apologize for the latin names, but as a self-confessed total rangeland sciences nerd I tend to identify plant species more by their latin names than their common ones.