Showy Chloris

Showy Chloris, Feathergrass, Feather Fingergrass

Chloris virgata Sw.

Poaceae (Grass Family)

▲ young plant

▲ young, mature plant, showing flattened sheaths & stem bases

▲ ▼ mature, flowering plants

▲ ▼ inflorescences

▲ leaf collar region, showing ligule

Showy Chloris:

upright-growing annual grass with medium to gray-green leaves; grows 12-36" tall
sheaths/stem bases are strongly flattened; leaves and sheaths are not hairy; short, membrane-like ligule
inflorescences are large, feathery tan to silvery, digitat panicles with 4-12 branches that are 1-4" long
spikelets/seeds are held to one side of panicle branches
found on roadsides, cultivated fields, sand soils