Weed
silver hairgrass
FloretFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil.
Lanceolate
Brown becoming whitish toward the top.
Rough becoming scabrousScabrous:
Rough to the touch, covered with minute points of very short, stiff hairs.
towards apexApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar.
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Hard, brown becoming scabrousScabrous:
Rough to the touch, covered with minute points of very short, stiff hairs.
towards the apexApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar..
Brown with short stiff hairs surrounding the callusCallus:
The hard base of grass florets or spikelets, just above the point of disarticulation.
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AwnAwn:
A narrow, bristle-like organ, as on the glumes or lemmas of grasses (Poaceae).
is geniculateGeniculate:
Bent at a sharp angle.
and twisted from the middle of the lemmaLemma:
One of two bracts of the grass floret; it is located on the side nearest the embryo and opposite the rachilla.
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SpikeletsSpikelet:
One or more florets that are subtended by a pair of bracts called glumes. Spikelets are pedicellate if located on a pedicle and sessile if attached directly to the rachis. Often spikelets with single florets have remnants of a second floret, usually a lemma.
contain two floretsFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil.; the lower floretFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil. contains a short rachillaRachilla:
The axis of a spikelet.
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See: USDA Agriculture Handbook 219 Seed of this species is considered noxious only as a contaminant. Check individual states for interpretations.
Not listed
Not included
Poaceae
Aira caryophyllea L.
