Lolium multiflorum

Azevém italiano (Lolium multiflorum) — o azevém de estabelecimento mais rápido para forragem célere, pousios de adubação verde e cobertura rápida do solo.

Lolium multiflorum — Italian ryegrass

Lolium multiflorum is the botanical name for Italian ryegrass, the fastest-establishing of the ryegrasses and a mainstay of quick forage and soil-building sowings. It is the species behind much of our ryegrass range within the wider grass collection.

History & origin

Italian ryegrass takes its common name from northern Italy, where it was selected and popularised as a vigorous, short-lived forage grass before spreading across European farmland. The genus name Lolium is the classical Latin word for a rye-like grass, while the species name multiflorum means “many-flowered,” describing its dense, many-spikeleted seedheads.

Botanical characteristics

A fast, tufted annual or short-lived grass, Italian ryegrass produces glossy, bright-green leaves and tall flowering stems topped with long, awned spikes. It grows rapidly and yields heavily, which makes it valued both as nutritious forage and as a quick-cover crop — qualities that place it among our green manures and cover crops.

Growing Lolium multiflorum from seed

Italian ryegrass is wonderfully easy and quick. Sow shallowly into a firm, moist seedbed and it germinates within days, knitting bare ground into dense green cover in a single season. Keep the surface from drying while it establishes, and cut or graze to keep it productive — our soil preparation guide covers the groundwork.

Ready to grow Italian ryegrass? Browse the ryegrass range or learn the basics first.

Related categories: Ryegrass · Grass · Green Manures · Cover Crops

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O que é Lolium multiflorum?
É o nome botânico da azevém italiano, uma gramínea de crescimento rápido e curta duração, cultivada como forragem nutritiva e como cultura de cobertura rápida ou adubo verde. Em que difere o azevém italiano de outras azevéns?
É o que se estabelece mais rapidamente e o de maior produção, mas tem menor longevidade do que o azevém perene — ideal para forragem de curto prazo e cobertura verde rápida, em vez de relvados duradouros. Com que rapidez germina?
Muito rapidamente — muitas vezes em poucos dias num leito de sementeira firme e húmido — cobrindo o solo nu com uma densa camada verde numa única estação. O que significa o nome multiflorum?
Significa «de muitas flores» em latim, descrevendo as densas espigas com numerosas espiguetas que surgem nas altas hastes florais.