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DESCRIPTION:
Littleseed canarygrass, a winter annual, infests winter-planted crops in California.
Seedlings are bluish green in color, have a large, white ligule inside the
leaf blade where its base wraps the stem
and a leaf sheath with a reddish base. Mature plants range from 4 to 39 inches
(10 - 97.5 cm) tall, branch at the base, and have mostly erect stems. The
soft, broad leaves are up to 6 inches (15 cm)
long with transparent ligules. Flowers are produced on spikelike heads 0.80 to
4 inches (2 - 10 cm) long. Flower clusters, or spikelets, are densely packed
in the head. Bracts are grayish brown with
light stripes on each side. Seeds, when separated from bracts, are hairy, flattened,
oblong,
translucent, and grayish green or straw colored.
Grass ID illustration.
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