Grass Description
Thrives in lawns, gardens, cultivated crops, roadsides, open areas, moist waste places.
General Description
Flattened stems are spreading or erect. The stems are short, from 2 to 12 inches long, and the plant is characterized by its dense, low clumps.
Prostrate annual with bright green soft lax blades that have the typical Poa boat-shaped tips; spikelets 3 to 6 flowered; lemmas with a few long hairs, but not webbed at their base.
Flower Characteristics
Seedheads are pyramidal with spreading branches. The flower head is triangular to egg shaped and it branches more than once, is often pale, and at times, bright green to purplish. 3 to 8 flowers per laterally compressed spikelet.
Vegetative Characteristics
Leaves are bright green, wide, flat and soft with the tip curved and prow-like.
It is one of the sweetest grasses for green fodder, but less useful than hay.