Grass Description
Moist soils and disturbed areas such as seasonally flooded grasslands and cultivated or irrigated fields and ditches.
General Description
Annual grass growing in clumps or spreading by rooting from trailing stem nodes or short stolons. Mature plants are prostrate or erect and range from 2 to 3 feet in width or height.
Annual, blades flat. Widely spaced seedhead branching with few or no bristles distinguishes this from Echinochloa crusgalli. Spikelets are 2 to 3 mm long and not awned.
Flower Characteristics
Seedheads are spike-like, 1 to 6 inches long with short, compact branches. Two-flowered awnless spikelets are arranged in 4 rows on one side of the seedhead and detach at maturity.
Vegetative Characteristics
Leaves are flat, grayish or dull green, sometimes having purplish banding; hairs on or near the margins. Stems are hairless except for hairs at the stem joints. They are reddish-purple at their base and can root at the lower nodes.
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