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Bayer Code : pohmo
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous
Common name: annual beard-grass
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: ES : pajilla ; FR : polypogon de Montpellier ; IT : coda di lepre comune ; PT : rabo-de-zorra-macio ; EN : annual beard-grass ;
Biological type: Annual
- Leaf sheath cut lilac with whitish borders.
- Leaf blade flat 150-200 times longer than wide.
- Ligule obtuse or acute, 3-8 mm long, 3-toothed and hairy.
- Height: 15-130 cm. Tillers geniculate ascending or decumbent, glabrous.
- Leaves glabrous.
- Inflorescence : dense, spike -like and hairy panicle.
- Glumes hairy at base, 2-lobed, with a subterminal and straight awn (4-10 mmm long).
- Biological type: annual.
Mistake with: Alopecurus myosuroides
Ecological profile (click on flags): Present