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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
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
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
Scientific Name
Common name
(15 weeds)
beaked panicgrass
bigtop lovegrass
creeping bentgrass
deertongue
hairyseed paspalum
openflower rosette grass
purpletop
redtop
rice cutgrass
sweet vernalgrass
tall oatgrass
tapered rosette grass
upland bentgrass
velvet panicum
western panicgrass
Scientific Name
(15 weeds)
Agrostis
gigantea
Agrostis
perennans
Agrostis
stolonifera
Anthoxanthum
odoratum
Arrhenatherum
elatius
Dichanthelium
acuminatum
Dichanthelium
acuminatum
var.
fasciculatum
Dichanthelium
clandestinum
Dichanthelium
laxiflorum
Dichanthelium
scoparium
Eragrostis
hirsuta
Leersia
oryzoides
Panicum
anceps
Paspalum
pubiflorum
Tridens
flavus