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Lolium multiflorum
Also called Annual Ryegrass, Italian Ryegrass, Westerwold Ryegrass, Westerwolds Ryegrass, Lovitto Ryegrass, Australian Ryegrass, Australian Rye Grass, Italian Rye Grass
Italian ryegrass is a fast-growing temperate grass grown mainly as livestock forage, silage and cover crop, and it can naturalize as a weed. It is usually grown as an annual or short-lived biennial in cool climates.
Lolium multiflorum (Italian rye-grass, annual ryegrass) is a ryegrass native to temperate Europe, though its precise native range is unknown.
It is a herbaceous annual, biennial, or perennial grass, depending on the environmental conditions. Italian ryegrass is grown for silage, and as a cover crop. It is also grown as an ornamental grass. It readily naturalizes in temperate climates, and can become a noxious weed in arable areas and an invasive species in native habitats. Resistance to multiple herbicides, including those from the ESPS and ACcase groups, has been identified in wild populations of L. multiflorum.
Lolium multiflorum is widely used to provide large forage yields in short term leys where persistence of the crop is not a priority.
Rye Grass · Tall fescue · Perennial ryegrass · Wimmera ryegrass · Darnel ryegrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lolium multiflorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
