Aegilops cylindrica

Family: Poaceae
Common Name: jointed goatgrass
Symbol: AECY
Description: Annual. Culms 14-50 cm, erect to decumbent at the base. Sheaths with hyaline margins, sometimes ciliate; blades 3-15 cm long, 2-5 mm wide. Spikes 2.2-12 cm long, about 0.3 cm wide, narrowly cylindrical. Spikelets 9-12 mm, narrowly cylindrical, scabrous or pubescent, with 3-5 florets. Glumes of lower spikelets awned, awns 0.2-0.5 cm; lemmas of lower spikelets 9-10 mm, adaxial surfaces velutinous distally, apices mucronate or awned, awns 0.1-0.5 cm. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 02.