. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. essee fescue (Festucarubra glauccsccns); various species of Paspalum and Panicum; blue grass(Poa pratensis); annual spear grass (Poa annua); English blue grass 189 t Poa cotnpressa) and other species of Poa. All these are foundintermingled with the wild indigenous grasses to a greater or lessextent in the highway pastures of the State. The beard grasses (Andro-pogons) form by far the largest number of grasses that occur in the nat-ural pastures on the Cumberland table-land and on the Highland Rim. WILD LEGUMINOUS AND OTHER FORAGE PLANTS FOUNDIN T
. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. essee fescue (Festucarubra glauccsccns); various species of Paspalum and Panicum; blue grass(Poa pratensis); annual spear grass (Poa annua); English blue grass 189 t Poa cotnpressa) and other species of Poa. All these are foundintermingled with the wild indigenous grasses to a greater or lessextent in the highway pastures of the State. The beard grasses (Andro-pogons) form by far the largest number of grasses that occur in the nat-ural pastures on the Cumberland table-land and on the Highland Rim. WILD LEGUMINOUS AND OTHER FORAGE PLANTS FOUNDIN THE HIGHWAY PASTURES OF TENNESSEE. There are many species of wild vetches, beans, peas and nuts, andseveral grazing plants belonging to the leguminous family that are foundin the highway pastures and woods and in old fields, fence corners andwaste places that furnish forage, seeds and nuts highly nutritious forstock. The wild vetches are especially abundant. Among the most valu-able are the small flowered vetch CVicia micrantha), Carolina vetch. />iof> SivJ (iniss—SfioinhKlits /inliriis (Vicia Caroliniana).American vetch ( Nicia Americana). Tennessee milkvetch (Astragalus Tennessiensis), Canada milk vetch (Vicia Canadensis).These vetches are foimd in most of the highway pasture.^ of the State,sometimes abundant, sometimes scarce, adapting themselves to the char-acter of the soil, some preferring a limestone soil, others a sandy of these make excellent food for cattle, sheep and hogs. The pencil flower (Stylosanthes elatior) is found on the sandy soilsthroughout the State. It is a lowly herb, growing in tufts and the stemsare downy on one side. It has an orange yellow flower. Cattle arevery fond of it. Bush clover (Lespedeza). There are six or eight species of thisgenus known to grow in Tennessee. The Lespedeza repens, Lespedeza 140 Stuvei, LespeJeza capitata, Lespedeza violacea, Lespedeza hirta andLespedeza striata or Japan clover, are all valuable grazing plan
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