Common name: Slender Foxtail, Blackgrass, Black Twitch
Alopecurus myosuroides Huds. APNI* Synonyms: Alopecurus agrestis L. APNI*
Description: Erect, slender, tufted annual to 0.7 (-0.9) m high.
Leaves with sheath somewhat inflated in the upper part; ligule truncate to obtuse, irregularly toothed, 1–5 mm long; blade flat, (1.5-) 2–8 mm wide, minutely scabrous.
Panicle cylindrical, dense, tapering at both ends, 2–12 cm long, mostly 3–6 mm wide, the branches usually bearing only 1 spikelet. Spikelets 4.5–7 mm long. Glumes narrow-oblong to ovate, acute, united to the middle, (4-) 4.5–7 mm long, shortly ciliate on the keels, margins ciliate, the nerves hairy below. Lemma ovate, acute, keeled, subequal to the glumes; awn (8-) 10–12 mm long, inserted near the base of the lemma.
Flowering: mainly spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of cultivated or disturbed ground. Native of Eur. & Asia.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CT, *CWS
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings; revised by P.G. Kodela (August 2012)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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