Shortawn Foxtail

Alopecurus aequalisThis is a biennial grass 10-40 cm tall, characterized by the ascending genu-flexuous stems and orange anthers, which go brown after efflorescence. The weed blossoms in June-July. It is a common species of swamped and wet meadows, water fronts, and wet shoulders of field and forest tracks.

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