Matang, moisture-loving, fat, light-loving, grows on roadsides, fields, widely distributed in temperate and subtropical mountains, northwest, north China and the Central Plains.
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Horse Tang, a genus of horse in the family Poaceae, is an annual herb with erect or oblique underparts, raised knees, more than two feet tall, slender stems, glabrous or nobble.
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leaf sheath shorter than internode, glabrous or scattered wart-based pubescent; The leaf tongue is extremely short, linear-lanceolate, about half a foot, the leaf tail is rounded, the leaf margin is thick, slightly rough, pubescent or glabrous.
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The inflorescences are half a foot long, and a dozen are born on the main shaft in the shape of fingers; panicle shaft straight or unfolded, with broad wings on both sides and rough edges; spikelets elliptic-lanceolate, first small and short triangular; The second is lanceolate, the first outer bark is equal in length to the spikelet, the second outer bark is nearly leathery, gray-green, tapering at the apex, equal in length to the first outer barn.
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Ma Tang, growing in abandoned rice fields, has roots, like knotted grass, can feed horses, horse food is like sugar, so the name Ma Tang, whole herbs into medicine, sweet and cold, bright eyes and lungs.
Matang is an excellent pasture. Its stem is slender and its leaves are soft, whether it is fresh grass or hay, all kinds of herbivores eat, horses, cattle, sheep like to eat, rabbits, geese like to eat, chickens, ducks also eat.
Matang grassland can be used for grazing, mowing, green manure suppression, and even used as a ground cover plant for solid soil greening. Especially in the subtropical region, Matang can complement the advantages of small white wine grass, dogtail grass, hemostatic horse tang, etc., forming a pioneer community of wasteland, such grassland has high grass quantity and good grass quality, and is the main grazing land and mowing land in agricultural areas, semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas and forest areas.
However, there are two sides to everything, the mesophyte horse pond, which is also a weed that harms farmland orchards. Its seeds spread quickly and are highly fecundarian; Its plants grow fast, have many branches, and are extremely competitive, and in various herbaceous communities, it dares to invade communities such as dog tooth root and knotweed, which inadvertently destroys the ecological balance; It invades crop fields at will and becomes a malignant weed in autumn ripening dry crop fields, ranking first in the number and distribution range of dryland weeds.
Especially in the Qinling Mountains and the north of the Huaihe River line, the largest area of occurrence, the Yangtze River basin and southwest and south China also occur in large quantities, harming corn, beans and other crops, harming cotton, fruit trees and other cash crops, harming melons, potatoes and other vegetable crops, its affinity, its casualness, its attack, always cause headaches, I can't wait to get rid of it quickly.
Net diagram, invasion and deletion.