Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortAgropyron repens
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | grass | Physiology | multi stem |
| Habit | erect | Category | forage/pasture, medicinals & aromatic, weed |
| Life span | perennial | Plant attributes | grown on large scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | shallow (20-50 cm) | shallow (20-50 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 10 | 20 | 4 | 45 | Soil texture | heavy, medium, light | heavy, medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 550 | 750 | 200 | 1500 | Soil fertility | high | low |
| Latitude | - | - | - | - | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | - | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | high (>10 dS/m)) |
| Soil PH | 6 | 6.5 | 4.2 | 8.2 | Soil drainage | poorly (saturated >50% of year), well (dry spells) | poorly (saturated >50% of year), well (dry spells) |
| Light intensity | very bright | clear skies | very bright | light shade | |||
| Climate zone | desert or arid (Bw), steppe or semiarid (Bs), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc), temperate with humid winters (Df), temperate with dry winters (Dw), boreal (E) | Photoperiod | long day (>14 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | -35 | Killing temp. early growth | 0 |
| Abiotic toler. | Abiotic suscept. | ||
| Introduction risks. | can become a weed |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | large scale/commercial | Crop cycle | 90 | 176 |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| phase planting | ||||
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | entire plant |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | entire plant |
| animal food (feed) | starch | seeds |
| food & beverage | starch | roots |
| medicinal | digestive system applications | roots |
| medicinal | skin applications | roots |
| medicinal | metabolic system applications | roots |
| medicinal | respiratory applications | roots |
| medicinal | muscular/skeletal applications | roots |