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annual beardgrass, rabbitsfoot grass

Habit Plants annual, 5–65 cm tall.
Leaves

sheaths glabrous; the uppermost sheaths sometimes inflated;

ligules 2.5–16 mm;

blades 1–20 cm × 1–7 mm.

Inflorescences

narrowly ellipsoid, sometimes lobed, 1–17 cm;

pedicels absent or to 0.2 mm;

stipes 0.1–0.2 mm.

Glumes

1–2.7 mm, ciliate, minutely hairy throughout; largest hairs restricted to the lower half;

tips rounded, lobed;

lobes 0.1–0.2 mm, 10% or less as long as the glume body, awned;

glume awns 4–10 mm; yellowish.

Lemmas

0.5–1.5 mm, glabrous, awned;

lemma awns 0.5–1(4.5)mm.

Anthers

0.2–1 mm.

2n

=28, 35.

Polypogon elongatus

Polypogon monspeliensis

Distribution
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Discussion

Disturbed wet sites, ditches, roadsides, often on alkaline soils. 0–1700m. All ecoregions except Casc. CA, ID, NV, WA; throughout most of North America; worldwide. Exotic.

A hybrid of P. monspeliensis and Agrostis stoloniferaAgropogon lutosus) has been found in Oregon. It differs from P. monspeliensis in having more tapered, short-awned glumes and lemmas with subterminal awns. Unlike A. stolonifera, its spikelets are on short stipes.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 470
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting
Sibling taxa
P. australis, P. fugax, P. interruptus, P. maritimus, P. monspeliensis, P. viridis
P. australis, P. fugax, P. interruptus, P. maritimus, P. viridis
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