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Italian Ryegrass
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Italian Ryegrass

Lolium multiflorum
In the United States: Naturalized · also called annual ryegrass

Italian ryegrass is a wind-pollinated annual grass that offers negligible nectar or pollen to honey bees. Flowering occurs over an extended spring-to-summer period but does not contribute meaningfully to colony forage.

Nectarlow
Pollenlow
Bloom (US) April–September
TypePerennial
Sunfull

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