Grass Description
Grows in disturbed sites such as cultivated ground, cracks in pavement and roadsides.
General Description
Plants are highly variable in size; often under 12 inches; few to many seedheads. Stems may be erect or briefly trail along ground before arising; may branch at base and above. Strong smelling when fresh. Ring of glands below the nodes.
Annual; strong smelling when fresh; largest spikelettes less than 1/16 inch wide; keels of lemmas more or less glandular but the glands often obscure. Spikelets many-flowered, 10 to 40.
Flower Characteristics
Seedheads are ovoid or oblong, densely flowered, condensed to open. Lemmas 3-nerved.
Vegetative Characteristics
Blades 2 to 8 inches long, 1/8 to 1/4 inch wide, flat to involute, top surfaces smooth without hairs, sometimes glandular, occasionally also hairy.
Not Available.