Polypogon viridis

Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : pohvi

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Polypogon semiverticillatus (Foskal) Hyl.

Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: water Bent

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Portulak ; FR : polypogon vert ; IT : coda di lepre verticillata ; PT : ; EN : water Bent ;

Biological type: Perennial

Seedling:

- Leaf blade about 150 times longer than wide, leaves glabrous.

- Ligule membranous scabrous, obtuse or truncate-toothed.

Adult plant:

- Height: 15-100 cm.

- Tiller usually decumbent, rooted at lower nodes.

- Leaves glabrous.

- Inflorescence : dense, spreading panicle with short branches. Spikelets small (1.5-2 mm long).

- Glumes elliptic, obtuse or acute, scabrous, not awned.

- Fruit : caryopsis.

- Biological type: perennial.

Ecological profile (click on flags): Rare