Annual Rabbitsfoot Grass
Polypogon monspeliensis (Linnaeus) Desfontaines
Annual Rabbitsfoot Grass: https://www.marylandbiodiversity.org/species/4110
Synonyms
Rabbitfoot Grass 

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Polypogon monspeliensis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Polypogon
Species:
P. monspeliensis
Binomial name
Polypogon monspeliensis

Polypogon monspeliensis, commonly known as annual beard-grass[1] or annual rabbitsfoot grass,[2] is a species of grass. It is native to the Old World, but it can be found today throughout the world as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed. It is an annual grass growing to heights between 5 centimeters and one meter. The soft, fluffy inflorescence is a dense, greenish, plumelike panicle, sometimes divided into lobes. The spikelets have long, thin, whitish awns, which give the inflorescence its texture.

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  1. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  2. ^ NRCS. "Polypogon monspeliensis". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 12 October 2015.
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