Sorghastrum NASH

Descriptors
Category: BIOLOGY
  1. 038 Winter hardiness (038 WINTER HARDINESS ) Field resistance.
Category: MORPHOLOGY
  1. 007 Stem - length (007 STEM - LENGTH ) At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.Length including inflorescence.
  2. 008 Stem - diameter (008 STEM - DIAMETER ) At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.
  3. 009 Stem - number of leaves (009 STEM - NUMBER OF LEAVES ) At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.
  4. 015 Leaf - primary colour (015 LEAF - PRIMARY COLOUR ) Genetic colour, when grass is not under stress. At beginning of flowering at forage and ornamental grasses. At turf grasses spring - summer - autumn.
  5. 016 Leaf - tone of other colour (016 LEAF - TONE OF OTHER COLOU) See descriptor no. 16.
  6. 017 Leaf - colour intensity (017 LEAF - COLOUR INTENSITY ) See descriptor no. 16.
  7. 018 Leaf - pattern (018 LEAF - PATTERN ) At beginning of flowering at ornamental grasses.
  8. 019 Leaf - change in colour in the autumn (019 LEAF - CHANGE IN COLOUR IN) At ornamental grasses.
  9. 020 Inflorescence - length (020 INFLORESCENCE - LENGTH ) At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.
Category: OTHER
  1. 096 Plant - aesthetic value (096 PLANT - AESTHETIC VALUE )
  2. 097 Plant - ornamental effect (097 PLANT - ORNAMENTAL EFFECT )
  3. 098 Plant - season of main interest (098 PLANT - SEASON OF MAIN INT)
  4. 099 Inflorescence - applicability for drying (099 INFLORESCENCE - APPLICABIL)
Category: PHENOLOGY
  1. 029 Time of inflorescence emergence (029 TIME OF INFLORESCENCE EMER) Number of days from the 1st April. When beginning has been reached at 10% stems in the plot. At single plants - when the tip of 3 inflorescences is just visible. fig.3
  2. 031 Abundance of inflorescence emergence (031 ABUNDANCE OF INFLORESCENCE) Estimate of number of flowering stems.m-2 at heading.
Category: PRODUCTION
  1. 065 Sward - 1000 seeds weight (TSW) (065 SWARD - 1000 SEEDS WEIGHT ) TSW - caryopsis according to the descriptor no. 25