Vulpia octoflora

Family: Poaceae
Common Name: None
Symbol: VUOC
Description: Common Name: sixweeks fescue Duration: Annual Nativity: Native Lifeform: Graminoid General: Small annual grass, 15-30 cm tall; stems solitary or loosely tufted, erect, slender. Vegetative: Blades narrow, 1-2 mm wide, 2-10 cm long, the margins rolled upward; sheath smooth to puberulent; ligule 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence: Narrow panicle, 2-10 cm long; spikelets 6-8 mm long, 5-13-flowered; lower glume 3-5 mm long, lance-shaped, 1-nerved; upper glume 3-5 mm long, lance-shaped, 3-nerved; lemma 4-5 mm long, firm, lance-shaped, smooth or rough-textured, with an awn 3-5 mm long; disarticulation above the glumes and beneath the florets. Ecology: Found on sterile, rocky, open ground below 6,500 ft (1981 m); flowers May-July. Distribution: Native to much of N. Amer and in every state in the US; south to c MEX and in S. Amer. Notes: Annual grass varying in size from very small to ca. 30 cm, possessing 5 or more imbricated florets per spikelet, each with an awn. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 05.