The World Flora Online

Annual. Culms loosely tufted, simple, erect or geniculately ascending, 40–60 cm tall, glabrous. Leaf sheaths hairy, at least the lower; leaf blades linear-lanceolate, flat, ca. 20 cm × 2–4 mm, glabrous or pubescent, margins scabrid, apex acuminate; ligule 1.5–4 mm. Panicle dense or slightly lax, erect, 4–15 × 2–6 cm; branches 2–3 per node, 1–3 cm, hairy, sometimes branched. Spikelets oblong, flabellate at maturity, 35–60 mm, florets 6–13, lax; lower glume subulate, 6–11 mm, 1-veined, upper glume linear-lanceolate, 10–16 mm, 3-veined; lemmas oblong, 12–19 × 3–3.5 mm in side view, 7-veined, glabrous or pubescent, margins inrolled, apex acuminate, 2-toothed; awn 12–18 mm, straight or weakly recurved; palea shorter than lemma. Stamens 2, anthers ca. 1 mm. Fl. May–Aug. 2n = 14, 28.

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Tufted slender annual 120-350(-600) mm high. Leaf blade 80-200 x 2-5 mm. Inflorescence contracted and dense to open, branching visible; lower branches with 1-2 spikelets, pedicels and branches shorter than spikelets, straight, robust; culm glabrous or minutely hairy below inflorescence. Spikelet 10-25(60) (including awns) x 4-5 mm, moderately laterally compressed; becoming wedge-shaped with age, hairy; lower glume 1-nerved; upper glume 14-20 mm long, 3-nerved; lemma 12-15(20) mm long, rounded on back, hairy, margins hyaline, apex distinctly bifid, acuminate, awned from well below apex; awn 15-20 mm long erect to recurved; palea ciliate on keels, glabrous between keels; callus scar circular; anthers 0.5-1.0 mm long.

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10–30(–50) cm hoch, kahl oder zerstreut behaart. Blätter 4–8 mm breit. Blatthäutchen bis 3 mm lang, fein zerschlitzt. Rispe 5–15 cm lang, dicht, aufrecht, Äste schief aufrecht, meist 5–20 mm lang. Diese ohne die Grannen 2–3 cm lang. Deckspelze 12–2

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4–6. Wegränder, Bahnareale, Trockenplätze, kollin. CH vereinzelt adventiv.

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Weedy places.

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Naturalised from southern and western Europe, eastwards to Afghanistan. Introduced and naturalised worldwide. WC (Somerset West).

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