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The California Annual Grassland. Plants of the California Annual Grassland. Avena fatua- Wild oats Avena barbata- Slender oats Bromus mollis- Soft chess Stipa pulchra- Purple needlegrass Stipa cernua- Nodding needlegrass. Plants of the California Annual Grassland cont.
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Plants of the California Annual Grassland • Avena fatua- Wild oats • Avena barbata- Slender oats • Bromus mollis- Soft chess • Stipa pulchra- Purple needlegrass • Stipa cernua- Nodding needlegrass
Plants of the California Annual Grassland cont. 6. Eriodium cicutarium- Cutleaf filaree 7. Medicago hispida- Bur clover 8. Adenostoma fasciculatum- Chamise 9. Quercus douglasii- Blue oak 10. Ceonothus sp. – Deer or buck brush
Continuous Grazing 1. Works well in flat desert areas 2. Works well in flat shortgrass prairie areas 3. Works well in California annual grassland 4. Requires the least fence of all the systems 5. Has given better livestock performance than rotation systems
Management Problems and Practices of the California Annual Grassland
Management of the California Annual Grassland • 1. Stock moderately ( 50% use) • 2. Provide protein supplements in summer and fall • 3. Continuous grazing has worked best • 4. Nitrogen and sulfur fertilization can be effective • 5. Apply common use grazing, goats can be effective in controlling brush • 6. Burn to control brush and reseed with perennial grasses and legumes • 7. Guzzlers effective improving quail populations