WINDMILL GRASS
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Chloris verticillata Nutt.
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| Pottawatomie County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 4-16 inches |
| Family: Poaceae - Grass Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July, August, September |
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| Culms: | | Decumbent and sharply bent below, erect above, flat, solid, glabrous. | | Blades: | | Crowded at base of stem, folded, 1/2 to 5 inches long, less than 1/6 inch wide, light green, glabrous or rough, keeled toward base; tips abruptly pointed. | | Sheaths: | | Shorter than internodes, 2-ranked, loose, flattened, keeled, glabrous. | | Ligules: | | Small, fringed membranes with long hairs behind and at margins. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicles; branches 6-20, spike-like, 2 to 4.5 inches long, often in 1-3 whorls, widely spreading. | | Spikelets: | | Widely spaced in 2 rows on 1 side of each branch, flattened; florets 1 perfect, 1 rudimentary; glumes unequal; fertile lemma keeled, awn to 1/3 inch long. | | Habitat: | | Waste areas, prairies, pastures, lawns, and roadsides. | | Distribution: | | Throughout Kansas | | Forage Value: | | Cattle will not graze it. | | Comments: | | Tufted. Windmill grass is a weedy species that can be a problem in lawns. At maturity, the inflorescences break away and blow in the wind. |
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