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A Fifteen-Year Phenological Record of Pasture Plants Near Lincoln, Nebraska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Melvin K. McCarty
Melvin K. McCarty*
Affiliation:
North Central Region, Agric. Res. Serv., Lincoln, NE 68583
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Abstract

Occurrence of various growth stages of major pasture plants near Lincoln, NE, were recorded for 15 yr, 1958 to 1973. The phenology of 31 perennial and 16 biennial, winter annual, and annual broadleaf species and 18 grasses was determined. Phenological stages of broadleaf species were recorded as: emergence, stem elongation, first bud, first bloom, and seed firm. Events recorded for the grasses were: emergence, culm elongation, head exserted, anthesis, and seed firm. Much variation existed in phenology among and within life habit groupings of species. Year-to-year variability in phenology of these plants was dependent on temperature patterns of specific years. Studies of this nature are useful in developing more efficient control methods for weeds, insects, and diseases.

Keywords

Degree-day accumulationclimatological informationweed ecology
Type
Weed Biology and Ecology
Information
Weed Science , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , March 1986 , pp. 218 - 224
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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