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Polypogon elongatus

Polypogon monspeliensis

annual rabbit's-foot grass
Habit Tufted annual, the culms 0.5-7 dm. tall, often decumbent and freely rooting below.
Leaves

Sheaths open, smooth to scabrous;

ligules 3-10 mm. long, strongly puberulent, narrowed to a blunt, lacerate tip;

blades flat, scabrous, 4-7 mm. broad.
Flowers

Inflorescence a dense panicle 2-15 cm. long;

spikelets 1-flowered, articulate below the glume;

glumes 2-3.5 mm. long, tawny with age, awned from between very short, rounded lobes, the awns 6-10 mm. long;

lemmas about half as long as the glumes, smooth and shining, the tip rounded, with a slender, terminal awn exceeding the glumes by about 1.5 mm.;

paleas subequal to the lemmas, 2-nerved.

Polypogon elongatus

Polypogon monspeliensis
Flowering time May-August
Habitat Wet to dry waste areas, including vernal pools where the water is brackish.
Distribution
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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin Introduced from Eurasia
Conservation status Not of concern
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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