Cynosurus echinatus

Cynosurus echinatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Pooideae
Genus:	Cynosurus
Species:	C. echinatus
Binomial name
	Cynosurus echinatus; L.

Cynosurus echinatus is a species of grass known by the common names bristly dogstail grass,^[1] rough dog's-tail^[2] and hedgehog dogtail. It is native to southern Europe, and it is known in the Americas and Australia as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed. An herbicide-resistant strain can be found growing as a weed in canola and wheat fields in Chile.^[3] This is an annual grass growing 10 to 50 centimeters tall. The inflorescence is a rounded or oval cluster or series of clusters of spikelets. The fertile spikelet has an awn up to a centimeter long. The awns clumped closely together into a tuft gives the inflorescence its bristly, hairy appearance.

References[]

^ "Cynosurus echinatus". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
^ Group A/1 resistant hedgehog dogtail (Cynosurus echinatus)

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[1] "Cynosurus echinatus". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 17 January 2016.

[BSBI07-2] BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.

[3] Group A/1 resistant hedgehog dogtail (Cynosurus echinatus)

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