Alopecurus myosuroides
Alopecurus myosuroides
Subsp myosuroides: Tarla tilkikuyruğu; Subsp tonsus: Yoz tilkikuyruğu
Annual. Rhizomes fibrous. Stems 10-100 cm, erect, somewhat geniculately ascending from base, densely or loosely tufted, sometimes solitary. Leaf sheaths smooth, glabrous, uppermost somewhat inflated; ligule 2-5 mm, obtuse; blades 1.5-23 cm x 2-8 mm, linear, acuminate, glabrous. Panicle 2-10 cm x 3-6 mm, narrowly cylindrical, tapering towards apex. Spikelets 4-6 mm, oblong to lanceolate-oblong, green to purplish. Glumes narrowly oblong, acute, connate for 1/3-1/2 of their length, shortly hairy at base. Lemma equalling glumes or slightly longer, elliptic, ovate, obtuse, margins connate for 1/3-1/2 of their length, awned just above base, or sometimes awn ±absent; awn to 12 mm. Palea absent. Anthers 2.54 mm. Fl. 3-8. Deciduous forest, water meadows, cultivated fields, roadsides and ditches, on sandy and saline soil, nr s.l.-1850 m.
1. Awn 8-12 mm, exserted from glumes by 5-6 mm var. myosuroides
1. Awn not exserted from glumes, or absent
2. Wing of glumes almost as long as glumes, covering entire keel, 1 mm or more broad var. latialatus
2. Wing of glumes very short, only in upper part of glumes, to 0.5 mm broad var. tonsus
