I have just taken my australian shephard to the vet to have three grass florets removed from 1 5 deep into her leg.
Grass awn images.
In grasses awns typically extend from the lemmas of the florets this often makes the hairy appearance of the grass synfloresce.
He alerted me to the dangers of these things and how they can cause serious injury.
Awns are characteristic of various plant families including geraniaceae and many grasses.
An awn is a hairy or bristle like appendage growing from the ear or flower of barley rye and many types of widely growing grasses.
Whether you call them awns mean seeds timothy foxtails cheat grass june grass downy brome or any other number of colloquial names to dogs they generally mean one thing and that s trouble.
Read on to find out the botanical names of grasses see pictures and read descriptions of the most popular types of.
Types of lawn grass with pictures and names looking at pictures of sod or turfgrass it s easy to think that all grasses look the same.
Green grass background stock photographs by javarman 123 2 178 relief of a grass awn picture by ginton 0 0 luxury motor home pictures by lisafx 15 552 sea view terrace stock photographs by lucidwaters 1 6 window with awning stock photo by cchar54 6 604 house pictures by loskutnikov 1 22 house stock images by loskutnikov 1 39.
The grasses in my yard are pennisetum alopecuroides hameln and maudry.
The height of many dogs lines up well with the location of the seed pods on the grasses and contact with the grass allows the sharp lightweight grass awns to stick to the dog.