Ammophila

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Ammophila

a genus of plants of the family Gramineae. The perennial grasses range in height from 0.5 to 1 m and have creeping rhizomes. The plants form a thick turf. The leaf blades are stenolinear. The inflorescence is a long and dense cylindrical panicle, and the spikelets are single-flowered and strongly laterally compressed. The glumes are stenolanceolate and keeled. The lemmas, which are leathery and have three to five ribs, are shorter than or the same length as the glumes.

There are two species of Ammophila, distributed in Europe, North Africa, and eastern North America. They grow on sandy coastal soils and dunes. In the USSR, the European beach grass (A. arenaria) grows on the coasts and islands of the Baltic Sea. The plant is sometimes used to stabilize sandy coastal soils and dunes.

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Bergson, quoting Fabre, has made play with the supposed extraordinary accuracy of the solitary wasp Ammophila, which lays its eggs in a caterpillar.

"According to Fabre's observations, which Bergson accepts, the Ammophila stings its prey EXACTLY and UNERRINGLY in EACH of the nervous centres.

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Vegetation of the study area can be recognized as coastal sand dunes dominated with Ammophila arenaria and Euphorbia paralias and inland areas dominated with Haloxylon scoparium and Asphodelus aestivus [9-11].

Ecological and Phytochemical Studies on Euphorbia retusa (Forssk.) from Egyptian Habitat

It can concluded that the high protein, moderate fiber contents and high in vitro digestibility found in Ammophila arenaria, Trigonella maritime and Vicia monantha, Vicia sativa, Ononis vaginalis, Atriplex nummularia and Lycium shawii make them good quality wild forage plant species that can be used in ruminants' nutrition under Egyptian rangelands conditions.

EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND IN VITRO DRY AND ORGANIC MATTER DIGESTIBILITY OF SOME FORAGE PLANT SPECIES DERIVED FROM EGYPTIAN RANGELANDS

On coastal dunes, Ammophila breviligulata is often planted as a management technique to slow dune advance.

Geological Sciences

Because restoration of degraded dune systems is occurring and likely to continue, we examined the occurrence of amphibians in drainages associated with a coastal dune ecosystem degraded by invasive plants (European Beachgrass, Ammophila arenaria, and Iceplant, Carpobrotus edulis).

Occurrence of amphibians in northern California coastal dune drainages

III Characteristics: Limonium obtusifolius 2, Senecio leucanthemifolius + in 1; Lobularia maritima 1, Sporobolus pungens and Sonchus bulbosus + in 2; Crithmum maritimum 3, Anthemis maritima and Plantago coronopus 1, Camphorosma monspeliaca and Allium commutatum + in 3; all species 1 in 4; Ammophila arenaria, Rumex tingitanus, Silene glauca, Hypochoeris achyrophorus, Smilax aspera and Avena sterilis II in 5.

Contribution to the phytosociological knowledge of rocky coastline of Corsica: description of five new plant associations/Contribucion al conocimiento fitosociologico de la vegetacion de acantilados costeros de Corcega: descripcion de cinco asociaciones nuevas

[[double dagger], NR] Psathyrella ammophila (Durieu & Lev.) P.D.

CHECKLIST OF INDIANA FUNGI I: MACROFUNGI

15.00 1.00 Eumenidae Delta 7.00 1.00 emarginatum Subancistroce- 2.00 1.00 rus sichelii Ammophila 2.67 0.58 atripes Sphecidae Sp.

Species Composition and Visiting Frequencies of Flower Visitors of Chromolaena odorata in a Dry Zone Forest Patch of Sri Lanka

In fact Emery and Rudgers (2012) reported that Ammophila breviligulata, a native dominant dune-building grass of the Great Lakes inhibited growth of Centaurea in a greenhouse environment while its own growth was unaffected by the invader.

Dynamics of an invasion: the spatial interactions of invasive Centaurea stoebe with native Cirsium pitched and Tanacetum huronense in a dune environment

A(948) Scolia bicincta (F.) C(13) Trielis octomaculata A(81) hermione (Banks) Sphecidae Ammophila spp., C(22) including A.

Insect visitors to flowering buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum (Polygonales: Polygonaceae), in north-central Florida

To support the return of natural sand dune movement and enhance habitat for the birds, the team implemented a plan to remove invasive vegetation, including European beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria), iceplant (Carpobrotus edulis) and Sydney golden wattle (Acacia longifolia).