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2 1. Name two cool-season grasses that are very well adapted to areas that frequently have flooded conditions. This one is known to have palatability problems as a grazed forage ______ and this one has a very fluffy seed that causes problems in seeding _______.
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2. Two cool-season grasses that are used in the wildlife seed mixture for seeding CRP lands in North Dakota are ______________________ and _____________________. These two legumes are included also ___________ and __________.

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3. These turfgrass species are commonly used as forages also. _______ is the dominant component of most long-term pastures and is the most widely grown cool-season turfgrass. This species is commonly used for its wear-tolerant turf, is a high-quality forage grass, and commonly mixed with Kentucky bluegrass for turf areas ___________. This species is a heat-tolerant cool-season grass commonly found in the central part of the USA, sometimes included in pasture mixes in this area, and tends to lack winterhardiness for dryland pastures ______.

3.5 4. Name four cool-season bunchgrasses commonly found on North Dakota's native ranges ________, ________, ______, and _______. Which one of these has a potentially injurious seed ______, has a high seed dormancy that reduces its use as a seeded hay species ______, or has a tame form that is used for forage production while other species are establishing ______.
1 5. This grass is being evaluated for potential use as a source of biomass for liquid fuel production and is the best seeded warm-season pasture ________________.
2 6. This long-lived, rhizomatous, cool-season grass is the most widely used grass for forage in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota. ________________ Frequently, this legume ______ is included to increase the quality and supply nitrogen to the grass.
1 7. _____ and ____ are a grass-legume mixture that was widely grown prior to development of good winterhardiness in alfalfa and is still commonly grown for hay in high-moisture areas.
1 8. This legume is used in western North Dakota for hay, is commonly found in native pastures and along road right-a-ways, and is the best green manure crop from a nitrogen fixation standpoint _________.
1 9. This tall-growing warm-season grass was indigenous to the Red River Valley of the North, but today is found as a minor component of the transition zone on the native range and on the Flint hills of Kansas _______.
1 10. This cool-season grass species is a high-quality grass hay that can have the crude protein content of alfalfa, but it generally is considered a weed that should be removed so it does not infest cropland ______.
1 11. Two legumes known to have creeping roots include this widely grown hay crop ______ and this road right-a-way stabilization legume ____________.
1 12. Name two cool-season rhizomatous grasses found on the native range ________ and ________.
1 13. This warm-season short grass is the most dominant species on many North Dakota's native range ________.
1 14. This species is used as an emergency hay crop or sometimes as a warm-season pasture __________.
2 15. A nonbloating legume adapted to the higher moisture areas like eastern Minnesota that has exceptional tolerance to close grazing is ________. This nonbloating legume is best used in drier areas and is known to have a coarse stemy hay with surprisingly good animal performance ______.
1 16. The cool-season bunchgrass species that makes an excellent choice to defer use of the native range is _____________________.
1 17. Fall grazing is excellent on this species since it "cures well on the stem" _________________________.
1 18. This bloating legume is the best choice for inclusion in a mixture with grass for a pasture __________________ (not answer to Question 15).
1 19. This stoleniferious warm-season grass is commonly found on high dry clay knolls in southwestern North Dakota and over the heat ducks here on campus ______________________________.
1.5 20. These warm-season rhizomatous grasses (other than that list in Question 9) generally are a component of the transition zone on the native range _________________, _____________, and ______________.
1 21. This cool-season bunchgrass has a very active leaf meristem, is sometimes found as a lawn weed, has its best use in North Dakota as an irrigated pasture species, and is marginal in winter hardiness is _______.
Upon my honor, I have neither given nor received aid in writing this exam_________________________.
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