A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants. Quamash ( Camassia quamash) syn Camaridium leichtlinii Var watsoni M Bovill is a city in Latah County, Idaho, United States. The population was 305 at the 2000 census. Grass is the common word that generally describes Monocotyledonous green Plants The family Gramineae ( Poaceae) are the "true grasses" and include A woody plant is any vascular Plant that has a perennial stem that is above ground and covered by a layer of thickened Bark. It may be cut for hay or grazed by livestock such as cattle, sheep or goats. Hay is a generic term for grass or Legumes that have been cut dried and stored for use as animal feed, particularly for grazing animals like Grazing generally describes a type of Predation in which an Herbivore feeds on Plants (such as Grasses, or more broadly on a multicellular Livestock is the term used to refer (singularly or plurally to a Domesticated Animal intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to produce such as Food Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domesticated Ungulates a member of the Subfamily Bovinae of the family The domestic goat ( Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat Domesticated from the Wild goat of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe
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Agricultural meadow
Especially in the United Kingdom, the term meadow is commonly used in its original sense to mean a haymeadow – grassland mown annually for hay (Old English mædwe). The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Hay is a generic term for grass or Legumes that have been cut dried and stored for use as animal feed, particularly for grazing animals like "Pasture" is used in contrast for land which is primarily grazed, which may include grassland ("grass pasture"), but also includes non-grassland habitats such as heathland, moorland and wood pasture. Pasture is land with Herbaceous vegetation cover used for grazing of Ungulate Livestock as part of a Farm or Ranch. Heaths are Shrubland habitats characterised by open low growing woody Vegetation, found on mainly infertile Acidic soils Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas characterised by low growing vegetation on Acidic soils Wood pasture is a historical European land management system in which open woodland provided shelter and Forage for grazing animals particularly Sheep and Cattle "Grassland" is used to include both meadow and grass pasture.
Transitional meadows
A transitional meadow occurs when a field, pasture, farmland, or other cleared land is no longer farmed or heavily grazed and starts to overgrow. In Agriculture, a field refers generally to an area of Land enclosed or otherwise and used for agricultural purposes such as Cultivating crops Pasture is land with Herbaceous vegetation cover used for grazing of Ungulate Livestock as part of a Farm or Ranch. In Geography, arable land (from Latin arare, to Plough) is an agricultural term meaning land that can be used for Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture Grazing generally describes a type of Predation in which an Herbivore feeds on Plants (such as Grasses, or more broadly on a multicellular Once meadow conditions are achieved, however, the condition is only temporary because the early colonizers will be shaded out when woody plants become well-established. A woody plant is any vascular Plant that has a perennial stem that is above ground and covered by a layer of thickened Bark.
In North America prior to European colonization, Algonquian, Iroquois and other Native American people regularly cleared areas of forest to create transitional meadows where deer could find nutrition and be hunted. Colonisation (also known as Colonization) occurs whenever any one or more species populates a new area This article is about the large number of peoples speaking Algonquian languages. The Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the "League of Peace and Power" the "Five Nations" the "Six Nations" or the "People of the Longhouse Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States A deer is a Ruminant Mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision to cells and Organisms of the materials necessary (in the form of food to support Deer hunting is the activity or sport of pursuing deer which began as early as 7000 BC Many places named "Deerfield" are located at sites where Native Americans once practised this form of land management. Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States Land management can be defined as the process of managing the use and development (in both urban and suburban settings of land resources in
Perpetual meadow
A perpetual meadow is one in which environmental factors restrict the growth of woody plants indefinitely. For example:
- Alpine meadows occur at high elevations and are maintained by harsh climatic conditions
- Coastal meadows are maintained by salt sprays
- Desert meadows are restricted by low precipitation
- Prairies are maintained by periods of severe drought and are subject to wildfires
- Wet meadows are semi-wetland areas saturated with water throughout much of the year. An alpine meadow is a high-altitude Grassland plant community located in an Alpine climate, above the treeline of a mountain The coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the Ocean. Seawater is Water from a Sea or Ocean. On average seawater in the world's oceans has a Salinity of about 3 A desert is a Landscape or region that receives very little precipitation. In Meteorology, precipitation (also known as one class of hydrometeors, which are atmospheric water phenomena is any product of the condensation of atmospheric Prairie, from the French prairie ("meadow" "grassland" "pasture" refers to an area of land of low topographic relief that historically A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply A wildfire, also known as a wildland fire, forest fire, brush fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, Peat fire, A wet meadow is a semi- Wetland Meadow which is saturated with Water throughout much of the year A wetland is an area of Land consisting of Soil that is Saturated with Moisture, such as a Swamp, Marsh, or Bog
See also
- Coastal plain
- Field
- Flooded grasslands and savannas
- Flood-meadow
- Grassland
- Pampa
- Pasture
- Plain
- Plateau
- Prairie
- Rangeland
- Savanna
- Steppe
- Tundra
- Water-meadow
- Wet meadow
- Veld
References
External links
- UK Wild Meadows Website
- Flora locale - information on creating wildflower meadows
- Meadow Planting
- A Year in a Meadow (Ottawa Canada)
- Grow a Back Yard Meadow (Ottawa Canada)
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