Cynosurus echinatus

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.

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

References

  1. "Cynosurus echinatus". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  2. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  3. Group A/1 resistant hedgehog dogtail (Cynosurus echinatus)


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