Cynosurus echinatus
bristly dog's-tail grass, bristly dogtail, bristly dogtail grass, dogtail grass, hedgehog dogtail, hedgehog dogtail grass
9-70 cm, clustered or solitary.
smooth, glabrous;
ligules 2.5-5(10) mm, obtuse, entire;
blades 3-13.5(23) cm long, 2.5-14 mm wide, scabrous.
1-4(8) cm long, 0.7-2 cm wide, ovoid to almost globose, unilateral.
7-14 mm, subsessile or shortly pedicellate;
pedicels to 1.6 mm.
spikelets with 6-18 florets;
glumes and lemmas similar, subulate to linear-lanceolate, glabrous, sometimes scabridulous, awned, awns to 8 mm.
spikelets with 1-5 florets, glumes and lemmas dissimilar;
glumes 5.5-12 mm long, 0.4-0.9 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, laterally compressed, hyaline, glabrous, 1-veined, keeled, awned, awns 0.5-2.2 mm;
rachilla internodes 0.9-1.3 mm;
lemmas 4-7 mm, slightly dorsally compressed, chartaceous or coriaceous, not keeled, lower 1/2 smooth, glabrous, distal 1/2 villous or scabrous, apices hyaline, ciliolate, entire or bidentate, awned, awns 5-18(25) mm;
anthers 1-4 mm.
= 14.
Cynosurus echinatus
Cynosurus echinatus is native to southern Europe. It is now established in dry, open habitats in North America, South America, and Australia.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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