Weed
water foxtail
SpikeletSpikelet:
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.
OvateOvate:
Egg-shaped with basal end the broadest.
Brown base, yellow middle to apexApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar.
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Shiny and smooth
Obscured by glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
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Obscured by glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it..
Keel of glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it. pubescent and geniculateGeniculate:
Bent at a sharp angle.
awn from 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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Soft caryopsisCaryopsis:
The single-seeded fruit or grain of the grass family (Poaceae); the fruit wall (pericarp) is united with the seed coat (testa).
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Not listed
Included
For more information, see ISMA fact sheet.
Poaceae
Alopecurus geniculatus L.
