Common Name:
annual
bluegrass
Common Name Synonyms:
speargrass, wintergrass
Scientific Name:
Poa annua
Family Name:
Poaceae (Graminae)
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Grass Family
Life Cycle
introduced winter annual, reproducing by seed
Culms
smooth, dense tufts, spreading, lower nodes often rooting
Leaves
blades smooth, boat-shaped tip, light green, often with short wrinkled segment mid-blade, folded in bud; auricles absent; ligule membranous, white, peaked; sheaths smooth, compressed
Seedheads
panicle, cone-shaped, open, light green to white, branched spikelets
