Forage, the Glossary
Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock.[1]
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96 relations: Acacia aneura, Agronomy Journal, Agrostis, Agrostis capillaris, Agrostis stolonifera, Albizia, Albizia canescens, Albizia lebbeck, Alfalfa, American Society of Agronomy, Andropogon hallii, Arachis pintoi, Arrhenatherum elatius, Astragalus cicer, Bothriochloa bladhii, Bothriochloa pertusa, Bromus, Cattle feeding, Cenchrus ciliaris, Cereal, Chamaecrista rotundifolia, Chloris gayana, Clitoria ternatea, Clover, Crop residue, Cynodon dactylon, Dactylis glomerata, Daikon, Echinochloa pyramidalis, Enterolobium cyclocarpum, Festuca, Festuca rubra, Fodder, Grazing, Hay, Heteropogon contortus, Hymenachne amplexicaulis, Hyparrhenia rufa, Ipomoea aquatica, Kummerowia, Kummerowia stipulacea, Kummerowia striata, Leersia hexandra, Legume, Lemna minor, Leucaena leucocephala, Livestock, Lolium, Lolium arundinaceum, Lolium multiflorum, ... Expand index (46 more) »
Acacia aneura
Acacia aneura, commonly known as mulga or true mulga, is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas of Australia. Forage and Acacia aneura are forages.
Agronomy Journal
Agronomy Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by American Society of Agronomy.
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Agrostis
Agrostis (bent or bentgrass) is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world.
Agrostis capillaris
Agrostis capillaris, the common bent, colonial bent, or browntop, is a rhizomatous and stoloniferous perennial in the grass family (Poaceae).
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Agrostis stolonifera
Agrostis stolonifera (creeping bentgrass, creeping bent, fiorin, spreading bent or carpet bentgrass) is a perennial grass species in the family Poaceae.
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Albizia
Albizia is a genus of more than 160 species of mostly fast-growing subtropical and tropical trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. Forage and Albizia are forages.
Albizia canescens
Albizia canescens, commonly known as Belmont siris, is a species of Albizia, endemic to Northern Australia. Forage and Albizia canescens are forages.
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Albizia lebbeck
Albizia lebbeck is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar. Forage and Albizia lebbeck are forages.
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Alfalfa
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. Forage and Alfalfa are forages.
American Society of Agronomy
The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) is a scientific and professional society of agronomists and scientists of related disciplines, principally in the United States but with many non-U.S. members as well.
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Andropogon hallii
Andropogon hallii (sand bluestem, sand hill bluestem, Hall's bluestem, Hall's beardgrass, prairie bluestem, turkey-foot) is a sod-forming perennial species in the grass family, Poaceae. Forage and Andropogon hallii are forages.
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Arachis pintoi
Arachis pintoi, the Pinto peanut, is a forage plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. Forage and Arachis pintoi are forages.
Arrhenatherum elatius
Arrhenatherum elatius is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, commonly known as false oat-grass, at and also bulbous oat grass (subsp. bulbosum), tall oat-grass, tall meadow oat, onion couch and tuber oat-grass.
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Astragalus cicer
Astragalus cicer, the chickpea milkvetch, chick-pea milk-vetch or cicer milkvetch, is a perennial flowering plant native to Eastern Europe, popularized and subsequently transported to areas in Southern Europe, North America, and South America.
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Bothriochloa bladhii
Bothriochloa bladhii (commonly called, variously, Australian bluestem, Caucasian bluestem, forest-bluegrass, plains bluestem, and purple plume grass) is a Neotropic grass in the family Poaceae, found primarily in tropical Africa, and tropical and temperate Asia, and Australia.
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Bothriochloa pertusa
Bothriochloa pertusa is a species of grass. Forage and Bothriochloa pertusa are forages.
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Bromus
Bromus is a large genus of grasses, classified in its own tribe Bromeae.
Cattle feeding
There are different systems of feeding cattle in animal husbandry.
Cenchrus ciliaris
Cenchrus ciliaris (buffel-grass or African foxtail grass; syn. Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link) is a species of grass native to most of Africa, southern Asia (east to India), southern Iran, and the extreme south of Europe (Sicily). Forage and Cenchrus ciliaris are forages.
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Cereal
A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.
Chamaecrista rotundifolia
Chamaecrista rotundifolia, the round-leaf cassia,Cook, B.G. et al.
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Chloris gayana
Chloris gayana is a species of grass known by the common name Rhodes grass. Forage and Chloris gayana are forages.
Clitoria ternatea
Clitoria ternatea, commonly known as Asian pigeonwings, bluebellvine, blue pea, butterfly pea, cordofan pea or Darwin pea, is a plant species belonging to the family Fabaceae, endemic and native to the Indonesian island of Ternate. Forage and Clitoria ternatea are forages.
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Clover
Clover, also called trefoil, are plants of the genus Trifolium (from Latin tres 'three' + folium 'leaf'), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae originating in Europe. Forage and Clover are forages.
Crop residue
Crop residues are waste materials generated by agriculture.
Cynodon dactylon
Cynodon dactylon, commonly known as Bermuda grass, and also known as couch grass in Australia and New Zealand, is a grass found worldwide. Forage and Cynodon dactylon are forages.
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Dactylis glomerata
Dactylis glomerata is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, known as cock's-foot,Interactive Flora of NW Europe also colloquially as orchard grass, or cat grass (due to its popularity for use with domestic cats). Forage and Dactylis glomerata are forages.
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Daikon
Daikon or mooli, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus, is a mild-flavored winter radish usually characterized by fast-growing leaves and a long, white, root.
Echinochloa pyramidalis
Echinochloa pyramidalis is a species of large grass, occurring naturally in flooded regions and beside lakes in tropical Africa and America, and introduced to various other countries.
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Enterolobium cyclocarpum
Enterolobium cyclocarpum, commonly known as conacaste, guanacaste, caro caro, devil's ear tree, monkey-ear tree, or elephant-ear tree, is a species of flowering tree in the family Fabaceae, that is native to tropical regions of the Americas, from central Mexico south to northern Brazil (Roraima) and Venezuela.
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Festuca
Festuca (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae).
Festuca rubra
Festuca rubra is a species of grass known by the common name red fescue, creeping red fescue or the rush-leaf fescue.
Fodder
Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. Forage and Fodder are livestock.
Grazing
In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming. Forage and grazing are livestock.
Hay
Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, either for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep, or for smaller domesticated animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs.
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Heteropogon contortus
Heteropogon contortus is a tropical, perennial tussock grass with a native distribution encompassing Southern Africa, southern Asia, Northern Australia, Oceania, and southwestern North America. Forage and Heteropogon contortus are forages.
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Hymenachne amplexicaulis
Hymenachne amplexicaulis, also known as West Indian marsh grass in the US, Olive hymenachne in Australia, and hereafter referred to as hymenachne, is New World species in the genus Hymenachne.
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Hyparrhenia rufa
Hyparrhenia rufa is a species of grass known by the common names jaraguá, FAO. Forage and Hyparrhenia rufa are forages.
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Ipomoea aquatica
Ipomoea aquatica, widely known as water spinach, is a semi-aquatic, tropical plant grown as a vegetable for its tender shoots.
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Kummerowia
Kummerowia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.
Kummerowia stipulacea
Kummerowia stipulacea is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Korean clover.
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Kummerowia striata
Kummerowia striata is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names Japanese clover and common lespedeza.
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Leersia hexandra
Leersia hexandra is a species of grass known by the common names southern cutgrass, clubhead cutgrass, and swamp rice grass. Forage and Leersia hexandra are forages.
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Legume
Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.
Lemna minor
Lemna minor, the common duckweed or lesser duckweed, is a species of aquatic freshwater plant in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the arum family Araceae.
Leucaena leucocephala
Leucaena leucocephala is a small fast-growing mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) and is now naturalized throughout the tropics including parts of Asia. Forage and Leucaena leucocephala are forages.
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Livestock
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
Lolium
Lolium is a genus of tufted grasses in the bluegrass subfamily (Pooideae).
Lolium arundinaceum
Lolium arundinaceum, tall fescue is a cool-season perennial C3 species of grass that is native to Europe. Forage and Lolium arundinaceum are forages.
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Lolium multiflorum
Lolium multiflorum (Italian rye-grass, annual ryegrass) is a ryegrass native to temperate Europe, though its precise native range is unknown.
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Lolium perenne
Lolium perenne, common name perennial ryegrass, English ryegrass, winter ryegrass, or ray grass, is a grass from the family Poaceae.
Lolium pratense
Lolium pratense, meadow fescue is a perennial species of grass, which is often used as an ornamental in gardens, and is also an important forage crop. It grows in meadows, roadsides, old pastures, and riversides on moist, rich soils, especially on loamy and heavy soils. Most publications have used the names Festuca pratensis or, more recently, Schedonorus pratensis for this species, but DNA studies appear to have settled a long debate that it should be included within the genus Lolium instead.
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Lotus corniculatus
Lotus corniculatus is a flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae, native to grasslands in temperate Eurasia and North Africa.
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Macroptilium atropurpureum
Macroptilium atropurpureum, commonly referred to as purple bush-bean,Macroptilium atropurpureum. Forage and Macroptilium atropurpureum are forages.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.
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Medicago
Medicago is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as medick or burclover, in the legume family (Fabaceae).
Medicago truncatula
Medicago truncatula, the barrelclover, strong-spined medick, barrel medic, or barrel medick, is a small annual legume native to the Mediterranean region that is used in genomic research. Forage and Medicago truncatula are forages.
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Megathyrsus maximus
Megathyrsus maximus, known as Guinea grass and green panic grass, is a large perennial bunch grass that is native to Africa and Yemen. Forage and Megathyrsus maximus are forages.
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Melilotus
Melilotus, known as melilot, sweet clover, and kumoniga (from the Cumans),Bulgarian Folk Customs, Mercia MacDermott, pg 27 is a genus in the family Fabaceae (the same family that also includes the Trifolium clovers).
Melinis minutiflora
Melinis minutiflora, commonly known as molasses grass, is a species of grass.
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Neonotonia wightii
Neonotonia wightii, the perennial soybean, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to subSaharan Africa, Yemen, India, and Sri Lanka, and widely introduced as a forage in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina, the Mascarene Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Java, New Guinea, Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, and Fiji. Forage and Neonotonia wightii are forages.
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Oat
The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural).
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Onobrychis viciifolia
Onobrychis viciifolia, also known as O. sativa or common sainfoin was an important forage legume in temperate regions until the 1950s. Forage and Onobrychis viciifolia are forages.
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Paspalum conjugatum
Paspalum conjugatum, commonly known as carabao grass or hilo grass, is a tropical to subtropical perennial grass.
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Paspalum dilatatum
Paspalum dilatatum is a species of grass known by the common name dallisgrass, Dallas grass, or sticky heads.
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Pasture
Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing. Forage and Pasture are livestock.
Phalaris arundinacea
Phalaris arundinacea, or reed canary grass, is a tall, perennial bunchgrass that commonly forms extensive single-species stands along the margins of lakes and streams and in wet open areas, with a wide distribution in Europe, Asia, northern Africa and North America.
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Pistia
Pistia is a genus of aquatic plants in the arum family, Araceae.
Poa
Poa is a genus of about 570 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres.
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Poa arachnifera
Poa arachnifera, the Texas bluegrass, is a species of grass.
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Poa pratensis
Poa pratensis, commonly known as Kentucky bluegrass (or blue grass), smooth meadow-grass, or common meadow-grass, is a perennial species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco.
Poa trivialis
Poa trivialis (rough bluegrass; UK: rough-stalked meadow-grass or rough meadow-grass), is a perennial plant regarded in the US as an ornamental plant.
Poaceae
Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.
Pontederia crassipes
Pontederia crassipes (formerly Eichhornia crassipes), commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive outside its native range.
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Salvinia molesta
Salvinia molesta, commonly known as giant salvinia, or as kariba weed after it infested a large portion of Lake Kariba between Zimbabwe and Zambia, is an aquatic fern, native to south-eastern Brazil.
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Setaria sphacelata
Setaria sphacelata is a tall African grass, also known as South African pigeon grass and African bristlegrass. Forage and Setaria sphacelata are forages.
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Silage
Silage is fodder made from green foliage crops which have been preserved by fermentation to the point of souring.
Sorghum
Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. Forage and sorghum are forages.
Stover
Stover are the leaves and stalks of field crops, such as corn (maize), sorghum or soybean that are commonly left in a field after harvesting the grain.
Stylosanthes
Stylosanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae and contains numerous highly important pasture and forage species. Forage and Stylosanthes are forages.
Stylosanthes humilis
Stylosanthes humilis, the Townsville stylo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the New World Tropics, and widely introduced as a forage to the tropics of Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Malesia, and Australia. Forage and Stylosanthes humilis are forages.
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Stylosanthes scabra
Stylosanthes scabra, the shrubby stylo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to tropical South America, and introduced to Hawaii and Australia. Forage and Stylosanthes scabra are forages.
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Themeda triandra
Themeda triandra is a species of C4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Forage and Themeda triandra are forages.
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Thinopyrum intermedium
Thinopyrum intermedium, known commonly as intermediate wheatgrass, is a sod-forming perennial grass in the Triticeae tribe of Pooideae native to Europe and Western Asia. Forage and Thinopyrum intermedium are forages.
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Timothy (grass)
Timothy (Phleum pratense) is an abundant perennial grass native to most of Europe except for the Mediterranean region. Forage and Timothy (grass) are forages.
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Trifolium hybridum
Trifolium hybridum, the alsike clover, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae.
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Trifolium incarnatum
Trifolium incarnatum, known as crimson clover or Italian clover, is a species of herbaceous flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to most of Europe. Forage and Trifolium incarnatum are forages.
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Trifolium pratense
Trifolium pratense (from Latin prātum, meaning meadow), red clover, is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, native to Europe, Western Asia, and northwest Africa, but planted and naturalized in many other regions. Forage and Trifolium pratense are forages.
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Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens, the white clover, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the bean family Fabaceae (otherwise known as Leguminosae). Forage and Trifolium repens are forages.
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Vicia
Vicia is a genus of over 240 species of flowering plants that are part of the legume family (Fabaceae), and which are commonly known as vetches. Forage and Vicia are forages.
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Vicia ervilia
Vicia ervilia, called ervil or bitter vetch, is an ancient legume crop of the Mediterranean region.
Vicia narbonensis
Vicia narbonensis, called Narbon bean, Narbon vetch, Narbonne vetch and moor's pea, is a widely distributed species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.
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Vicia sativa
Vicia sativa, known as the common vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing leguminous plant in the family Fabaceae.
Vicia villosa
Vicia villosa, known as the hairy vetch, fodder vetch or winter vetch, is a plant native to some of Europe and western Asia.
Vigna parkeri
Vigna parkeri, the creeping vigna or vigna menjalar, is a climbing or prostrate perennial vine that grows in subtropical areas such as Kenya, Indonesia, and Madagascar.
Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forage
Also known as Forage crop, Forage vetches.
, Lolium perenne, Lolium pratense, Lotus corniculatus, Macroptilium atropurpureum, Maize, Medicago, Medicago truncatula, Megathyrsus maximus, Melilotus, Melinis minutiflora, Neonotonia wightii, Oat, Onobrychis viciifolia, Paspalum conjugatum, Paspalum dilatatum, Pasture, Phalaris arundinacea, Pistia, Poa, Poa arachnifera, Poa pratensis, Poa trivialis, Poaceae, Pontederia crassipes, Salvinia molesta, Setaria sphacelata, Silage, Sorghum, Stover, Stylosanthes, Stylosanthes humilis, Stylosanthes scabra, Themeda triandra, Thinopyrum intermedium, Timothy (grass), Trifolium hybridum, Trifolium incarnatum, Trifolium pratense, Trifolium repens, Vicia, Vicia ervilia, Vicia narbonensis, Vicia sativa, Vicia villosa, Vigna parkeri, Wiley (publisher).