Description
Wheatgrass (scientific name: Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn.) is a perennial herb of the family Gramineae and Agropyron genus. The stalks are sparsely clumped up to 75 cm in height. The leaves are long and hard and rough, often involute and spike-like. The inflorescence is relatively thick, oblong or narrow at both ends, and the spikelets are arranged closely parallel in two rows, neatly shaped like castor teeth, small flowers, glume boat-shaped, with short awns at the top; short bristle hairs on the palea ridge.
Distributed in Northeast China, North China, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other provinces. Russia, Mongolia and North America are also distributed. It grows on dry grassland, hillsides, hills and sandy land. [1]
Ice grass is an excellent pasture. Horses and sheep like to eat when it is fresh, and cattle and camels also like to eat. It has good nutritional value and is a medium fattening feed.
