Lolium is a genus of tufted grasses in the bluegrass subfamily. It is often called ryegrass, but this term is sometimes used to refer to grasses in other genera.
Starr 001026 9002 Lolium perenne
Perennial ryegrass, used as winter lawn.
Poison darnel (Lolium temulentum)
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, goat
Lolium
…Lolium × grandispicum - × Festulolium braunii Lolium contains some species which are important grasses for lawns, and as pasture and for grazing and hay for livestock, being a highly nutritious stock feed. Ryegrasses are also used in soil erosion control programs. It is the principal grazing grass in…
Good-quality hay is green and not too coarse and includes plant heads, leaves, and stems.
Poor-quality hay is dry, bleached out and coarse-stemmed. Sometimes, hay stored outdoors will look like this on the outside but still be green inside the bale. A dried, bleached or coarse bale is still edible and provides some nutritional value as long as it is dry and not moldy, dusty, or rotting.