Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 68 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Winter grass, goose grass, annual meadow-grass.

Description:
Soft tufted glabrous annual; culms erect to prostrate; leaf blades flat or folded when young, thin, soft, to 12 cm long, smooth or very minutely scaberulous.

Panicle triangular to ovate, 1-12 cm long; the branches spreading, to 5 cm long, devoid of spikelets in the lower parts; spikelets 3-10-flowered, ovate or oblong; glumes 1.5-4 mm long; lemmas 2.5-4 mm long, prominently 5-nerved, the internerves usually glabrous, the nerves usually densely hairy; web absent.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 133.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   All States except the N.T.   Native to Europe, but now cosmopolitan. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: most of the year, but especially in spring.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Occurs as a weed of cultivated ground.

Author: Not yet available