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Plant type
Grass or grass like
Broadleaf
Grass or grass like
Other
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Leaf arrangement
folded in bud
rolled in bud
I do not know
Ligule
membrane
hairy
none
I do not know
Ligule length
less than 1 mm
none
less than 1 mm
1-2 mm
2-3 mm
more than 3 mm
I do not know
Leaf hair on surface
no hairs
hairs from base to tip
hairs on basal half only
I do not know
Mature leaf Width
6 to 15 mm
less than 5 mm
6 to 15 mm
more than 15 mm
I do not know
Auricle
not present
not present
present
I do not know
Stem
flat or oval
round
triangle
I do not know
Root structure
fibrous
bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet
rhizomes present
stolons present
I do not know
Seedhead
I do not know
bristly
spike
branched spike
flowers
spiny burs
multiple spikes
panicle
I do not know
Lifecycle
winter annual
summer annual
biennial
perennial
I do not know
Common Name
Scientific Name
Common name
(28 weeds)
bald brome
beaked panicgrass
big bluestem
bigtop lovegrass
broadleaf signalgrass
coastal sandbur
common carpetgrass
deertongue
field brome
foxtail millet
hairy crabgrass
Indian goosegrass
itchgrass
jointhead arthraxon
Nepalese browntop
openflower rosette grass
purpletop
rice cutgrass
smooth brome
smooth crabgrass
smut grass
soft brome
southern crabgrass
St. Augustinegrass
stink grass
tapered rosette grass
Texas panicum
witchgrass
Scientific Name
(28 weeds)
Andropogon
gerardii
Arthraxon
hispidus
Axonopus
fissifolius
Bromus
arvensis
Bromus
hordeaceus
Bromus
inermis
Bromus
racemosus
Cenchrus
spinifex
Dichanthelium
acuminatum
Dichanthelium
clandestinum
Dichanthelium
laxiflorum
Digitaria
ciliaris
Digitaria
ischaemum
Digitaria
sanguinalis
Eleusine
indica
Eragrostis
cilianensis
Eragrostis
hirsuta
Leersia
oryzoides
Microstegium
vimineum
Panicum
anceps
Panicum
capillare
Rottboellia
cochinchinensis
Setaria
italica
Sporobolus
indicus
Stenotaphrum
secundatum
Tridens
flavus
Urochloa
platyphylla
Urochloa
texana