Common Name: Tumble Windmillgrass

Other Names: Windmillgrass

Species Name: Chloris verticillata Nutt.

Plant Type: Grasses & Grass-like

Family Name: Poaceae

 

 

 

 

 

 

ID Characteristics

• Field Identification Characteristics
  • The ligule is small with long hairs behind and at the margins
  • Roots at the nodes and spreads
  • Panicle of 6-20 spicate branches, partly in vericels
• Leaf and Stem Characteristics
  • Sheath: Keeled, without hair
  • Blade: Folded, keeled especially toward the base, without hair to rough (scabrous)
  • Ligule: Ciliate membrane, truncate, with long hairs behind and at the margins
  • Culm: Decumbent and geniculate below, erect above, flattened, solid, often rooting at the lower nodes
• Floral Characteristics
  • Inflorescence: Panicle
  • Spikelet: Florets 2; fertile lemma keeled
  • Awns: Fertile lemma awned from below the tip, rudiment lemma awned
  • Glumes: Unequal, first shorter than the second glume