Grass Description
Found in lawns, irrigated lands, waste places, in disturbed soils.
General Description
Mostly hairless stems ranging from green to purple-tinged bristles. The bristles turn yellow at maturity, giving the grass its name.
Tufted 1 to 3 foot annual; stems branch at base, usually at sharp angles, blade with hairs on lower surface; dense, spikelike, erect seedheads; spikelets turgid, subtended by 1/8 to 1/4 inch long 5-20 bristles, ligule a dense fringe of stiff hairs.
Flower Characteristics
The seedhead is cylindrical and bristly, reaching 6 inches in length and 1/3 to 2/3 inch in width. Spikelets are approximately 1/8 inch long, green, and each spikelet has 1 to 3 bristles that are 1/4 to 1/2 inch long.
Vegetative Characteristics
Leaf blades may reach 12 inches in length and 7 to 12-1/2 inches in width, and have long silky hairs at the leaf bases. Auricles are absent and the ligule is a fringe of hairs reaching 1/16 inch in length.
Not available.