Alopecurus carolinianus Walter

Tufted Meadow Foxtail; Carolina Foxtail Grass; Tufted Foxtail

Herb

Annual

Vascular

Carolina Foxtail Grass is a native annual in the Grass family (Poaceae). It is found throughout Alabama. Carolina Foxtail Grass grows in moist to wet, open areas such as in roadside ditches, in low fields and pastures, on floodplains, and around ponds. It is a cool-season tufted annual with a fibrous root system. Culms (stems) are erect, 5-18 inches in height, green in color, with most of the leaves in the lower half. The leaves are linear, glabrous, and entire. The uppermost leaf sheath is slightly inflated and bluish-green in color. Flowers are produced in spiklets that are arranged in dense, cylindric spike-like panicles. The glumes are pale green in color, membranous throughout, sparsely pubescent, and unawned. They are fused at the base. The lemmas have awns that are longer than the glumes. Paleas are absent. The fruit is a grain.—A. Diamond.

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Native FACW (NWPL) G5 (Global Rank)

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