Also known as grass awns the foxtail weed can be hazardous to your lawn as well as your pets.
Foxtail grass seed awns.
Awns of destruction for western dogs foxtail awns present the most insidious threat to the health of dogs in the western united states.
Each individual seed contains spikes with barbs called awns which can lodge in horses mouths and gums or even scratch an eye.
These weedy grasses form seed pods that dry out and scatter in the summer.
Foxtail awns are barbed razor sharp needles designed to burrow into the ground with the seed.
A foxtail awn is the sharp barbed seed head of a grassy plant or type of wild barley.
These grasses can be found throughout north america and are especially prevalent in the western united states.
Common examples of these weeds include foxtail and cheatgrass.
There are a few different varieties of foxtail yellow green and giant.
These awns can work their way through the tissue causing lesions and infections.
Foxtails are grasses with seed awns that are extremely dangerous to dogs.
The applied nomer foxtail describes the bushy cluster of seed awns characteristic of these plants.
While the immature foxtail plant has no ill effect on horses the seed heads are troublesome.
Grass awns are the seed pods of certain tall grasses that grow as invasive weeds.
The sharp needles on the seed heads of the foxtail plant can also work their way into any part of your dog from the nose to between the toes and inside the ears eyes and mouth.
It gets the name from the seed heads it forms which look exactly like the foxes tails.