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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

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

I do not know

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

panicle

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

Lifecycle

perennial

winter annual
summer annual
biennial
perennial
I do not know

Common name

(16 weeds)
beaked panicgrass
bigtop lovegrass
deertongue
hairyseed paspalum
openflower rosette grass
orchardgrass
purpletop
redtop
reed canarygrass
rice cutgrass
sweet vernalgrass
tall oatgrass
tapered rosette grass
upland bentgrass
velvet panicum
western panicgrass

Scientific Name

(16 weeds)
Agrostis gigantea
Agrostis perennans
Anthoxanthum odoratum
Arrhenatherum elatius
Dactylis glomerata
Dichanthelium acuminatum
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. fasciculatum
Dichanthelium clandestinum
Dichanthelium laxiflorum
Dichanthelium scoparium
Eragrostis hirsuta
Leersia oryzoides
Panicum anceps
Paspalum pubiflorum
Phalaris arundinacea
Tridens flavus

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