Jointed Goatgrass

Jointed Goatgrass

Aegilops cylindrica Host

Poaceae (Grass Family)

▲ ▼ mature plants

▲ flowering plant

▲ ▼ close-up of jointed inflorescence spike

Jointed Goatgrass: (pp. 394-395, Weeds of the Great Plains; not in Weeds of the Northeast)

Cool season annual grass frequently in wheat fields and other winter annual crops
Has mostly upright, slender, mostly hairless leaves
Inflorescence is a spike of stacked spikelets which break apart at maturity
Each spikelet is awned, with longer awns on tip spikelets--very unique inflorescence