Agricultural, Revegetation or Rangeland
creeping meadow 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.
SpatulateSpatulate:
Having a narrow base and rounded apex. Pear-shaped.
and glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
recurved.
Black at the base to yellow at the tip.
Smooth and shiny
Obscured by glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it..
Obscured by glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it..
Pubescence on keel of glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it..
Caryopsis endospermEndosperm:
Nutritive tissue originating from union of the two polar nuclei with a sperm nucleus.
very soft and plastic. Margins of glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it. rounded inward until near tip, where they curve outward.
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Not included
Poaceae
Alopecurus arundinaceus Poir
Alopecurus ventricosus Pers., non (Gouan) Huds.
