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stinkgrass

Habit Ill-smelling annual, the hollow stems erect to decumbent, 1-5 dm. tall, with pit-like depressions just below the nodes.
Leaves

Sheaths open, glandular, the throat with hairs up to 2 mm. long;

ligules a fringe of straight hairs nearly 1 mm. long;

blades flat to folded, 2-5 mm. broad.

Flowers

Inflorescence a condensed panicle 7-15 cm. long, tapered from the base upward;

spikelets ovate-oblong, up to 40-flowered, flattened, about 3 mm. broad;

glumes keeled, subequal, 2-2.5 mm. long, the first 1-nerved, the second 3-nerved;

lemmas awnless, with 3 prominent, non-converging nerves, strongly glandular on the keel.

Eragrostis cilianensis

Flowering time June-October
Habitat Disturbed areas and waste land, and along streams and pond margins.
Distribution
Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin Introduced from Europe
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
E. curvula, E. hypnoides, E. lutescens, E. mexicana, E. minor, E. pectinacea, E. pilosa
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