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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

Eragrostis bahiensis

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
E. cilianensis, E. curvula, E. hypnoides, E. lutescens, E. mexicana, E. minor, E. pectinacea, E. pilosa
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