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Plant type

Grass or grass like
  • Broadleaf
  • Grass or grass like
  • Other
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Leaf arrangement

rolled in bud

folded in bud
rolled in bud
I do not know

Ligule

membrane
hairy
none
I do not know

Ligule length

none
less than 1 mm
1-2 mm
2-3 mm
more than 3 mm
I do not know

Leaf hair on surface

hairs from base to tip

no hairs
hairs from base to tip
hairs on basal half only
I do not know

Mature leaf Width

less than 5 mm
6 to 15 mm
more than 15 mm
I do not know

Auricle

I do not know

not present
present
I do not know

Stem

flat or oval
round
triangle
I do not know

Root structure

I do not know

fibrous
bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet
rhizomes present
stolons present
I do not know

Seedhead

panicle

bristly
spike
branched spike
flowers
spiny burs
multiple spikes
panicle
I do not know

Lifecycle

I do not know

winter annual
summer annual
biennial
perennial
I do not know

Common name

(17 weeds)
bald brome
cheatgrass
fall panicgrass
field brome
giant foxtail
openflower rosette grass
poverty brome
purpletop
rice cutgrass
smooth brome
sweet vernalgrass
tall oatgrass
Texas panicum
velvet panicum
western panicgrass
wild oat
witchgrass

Scientific Name

(17 weeds)
Anthoxanthum odoratum
Arrhenatherum elatius
Avena fatua
Bromus arvensis
Bromus inermis
Bromus racemosus
Bromus sterilis
Bromus tectorum
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. fasciculatum
Dichanthelium laxiflorum
Dichanthelium scoparium
Leersia oryzoides
Panicum capillare
Panicum dicotomiflorum
Setaria faberi
Tridens flavus
Urochloa texana

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