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Agrostis gigantea ~ redtop

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Characteristics:
  • FACW
  • Michigan C Value: 0
  • plants rhizomatous but not stoloniferous
  • culms erect and nearly straight
  • larger blades mostly 3 7 mm wide
  • spikeltes a bit purplish or redish when fresh
  • middle panicle branches angled 30 to 45 degrees from panicle axis
  • each culm is slender, glabrous, and round in cross section
  • the sheath of each leaf is open and hairless; tendency to split open into a deep V shape, sometimes to the node
  • node at the base of each sheath is reddish/purplish and hairless
  • common in many habitats
  • native and non-native types
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