Stinkgrass [Eragrostis cilianensis]

Origin:  
Use: Annual, warm season, introduced grass that provides poor grazing for wildlife and livestock.
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Plant Description:
General   
Life Span  Annual
Growth Form  Ascending or spreading, freely branching from a decumbent base.
Management:
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General  Provides poor grazing for wildlife and livestock.
ID Features:
Habit: 		Weedy, tufted annual with disagreeable odor when fresh.
Culm: 		Ascending or spreading, freely branching from a decumbent base, 10-50 cm. tall,
		with a ring of glands below the nodes.
Blade: 		7-18 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, flat, smooth beneath, scabrous above.
Sheaths: 	Shorter than internodes, pilose at the throat.
Ligule: 	Dense ring of short hairs.
Inflorescence: 	Panicles erect, dark gray-green to tawny, usually dense, 5-15 cm. long,
		the branches ascending, spikelet-bearing nearly to the base.
Spikelets: 	Oblong, usually 8-35-flowered (sometimes to 72-flowered), 5-18 (30) mm. long,
		2.5-3 mm. wide, very flat, numerous.
Glumes: 	2, acute, unequal, first 1-nerved, about 2 mm. long, second 3-nerved, a little
		shorter than the first, a few glands on the keel.
Lemmas: 	Closely imbricate, broad, obtuse (acute in side view), 2-2.5 mm. long,
		1 mm. wide from keel to margin, 3-nerved, the keel scabrous towards the apex and
		with a few glands, the lateral nerves prominent.
Palea: 		About two thirds as long as its lemma, minutely ciliate on the 2 keels,
		falling with the lemma and rachilla internodes.
Anthers: 	0.5 mm. long.
Fruit: 		Grain ovoid, plump, 0.7 mm. long.
Habitat: 	Waste places, roadsides, fields, and cultivated grounds.  June-September.
Synonyms:	Eragrostis major Host
		Eragrostis megastachya (Koel.) Link
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