Rat-tail Fescue

Rat-tail Fescue

Vulpia myuros (L.) K.C. Gmel. (not in Weeds of the Great Plains; not in Weeds of the Northeast)

Poaceae (Grass Family)

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Rat-tail Fescue:

• Cool-season annual grass with very slender upright stems and leaves, grows 4-12 inches tall
• Not a true fescue grass
• Leaves soft, slender, light-green to gray green without hairs
• Inflorescence is a long, spike-like, feathery compressed panicle
• Found in dry and infertile soils as well as some compacted soil sites

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