Cat grass refers to grass plants, generally speaking, the color is mainly green. Cat grass includes barley, wheat, oats, rye, rice, foxtail grass, etc. Different plants have different shapes. Cat grass is a very healthy food for cats. It can stimulate the cat’s gastrointestinal tract and induce vomiting of hair balls. It is recommended that cat owners plant some cat grass at home and feed their cats appropriately to prevent hairballs caused by excessive hair balls in cats.

Types of cat grass:

1. Barley grass. Barley grass has a short rhizome with a plant height of about 30-70 cm. The stem is upright and smooth, the ligule is membranous, the leaves are flat, about 3-14 cm long, and the lemma is awn-shaped.

2. Wheatgrass. Wheatgrass is an annual or biennial herb, 60 to 100 cm tall, with upright stems and spikes.

3. Oat grass. The fibrous roots are thick. The stalk is erect or genuflexed at the base, 1-1.5 meters high, with 4-5 nodes. The leaf sheath is loose, smooth and hairless, shorter than the base or longer than the internodes; the culm is membranous; the leaves are flat, rough or smooth below, 14-25 cm long and 3-9 mm wide.

4. Rice straw. The leaves and veins are green, and the leaves are rough to the touch, with ligules and ears.

5. Dogtail grass. The leaf sheath is loose, hairless or sparsely pubescent or warty, with long dense hairy cilia on the edge; the ligule is extremely short, with 1-2 mm long cilia on the edge; the blade is flat, long triangular and narrowly lanceolate. Or linear-lanceolate, with long acuminate or acuminate apex, blunt base, often truncate or tapered, 4-30 cm long, 2-18 mm wide, usually hairless or sparsely covered with verrucous hairs, edges Rough.