SHOWY CHLORIS
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Chloris virgata Sw.
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| Comanche County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 16-36 inches |
| Family: Poaceae - Grass Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August |
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| Also Called: | | Feather finger-grass. | | Culms: | | Ascending to spreading from decumbent base, solid above, often hollow below, smooth, somewhat flattened, branching at base and lower nodes; sometimes rooting at nodes. | | Blades: | | Flat, to 9 inches long, 1/8 to 1/4 inch wide, surfaces and margins rough, sparsely long-hairy; tip tapering to sharp point. | | Sheaths: | | Shorter than internodes, slightly keeled, smooth, few hairs often at throat. | | Ligules: | | Short fringed membrane. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicles, terminal; branches 6-20, crowded, finger-like, erect or ascending, 2 to 3.5 inches long, pale green or tan, silky. | | Spikelets: | | 2-flowered, flattened, crowded on 1 side of slender branches; lower floret fertile; upper floret underdeveloped; glumes unequal, 1-nerved, tapering to points; lemma of fertile floret swollen, hairy at base, margins conspicuously fringed, awn rough, 1/8 to 2/5 inch long; underdeveloped floret with awn 1/10 to 1/3 inch long. | | Habitat: | | Pastures, disturbed prairies, roadsides, waste ground; sandy soil. | | Distribution: | | Principally south 1/2 of Kansas. | | Comments: | | Widespread weed. |
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