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DESCRIPTION:
Littleseed canarygrass, a winter annual grass, 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. Small leaflike structures basal to the flowers are grayish brown with light stripes on each side. Seeds, when
separated from these structures, are hairy, flattened, oblong, translucent, and grayish green or straw colored.
Grass ID illustration.
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