Orchard Grass - Dactylis glomerata
Other Names:
Orchardgrass, Cock's-foot, Cat Grass
Non-native Species
Global Rank:
GNR
State Rank:
SNA
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C-value:
0
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Cool season, perennial bunchgrass, commonly forms tussocks. Stems 80–200 cm. Leaves: blades flat and lax to ascending, 4–8 mm wide; ligules membranous, 3–9 mm long; sheaths with overlapping margins and dorsally keeled. Inflorescence a contracted secund panicle 4–20 cm long. Spikelets 5–8 mm long with 3 to 6 florets. Lemmas 4–6 mm long, keeled and inconspicuously veined, awnless or awn-tipped; palea enclosed in lemma. Disarticulation above glumes; unit of dispersal the floret
(Lavin in Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Open meadows and open understory where moderately disturbed, including road and trailsides, as well as in lawns
(Lavin in Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).