awn

The barbed awns catch in the fur of passing animals, effecting dispersal of the spikelet.

Raceme with spaced spikelets; central awns all strongly and stiffly reflexed.

Petiole glabrous, leaf margin deeply serrate, teeth extending into awns.

This variety differs from the typical variety by the much smaller flowers and fruits and the shorter and more acute mericarp awns.

a wheatgrass with straight terminal awns on the flowering glumes.

Stamens 10, sometimes with spurs or awns, dehiscing by pores, pollen in tetrads, rarely single.

Margins of leaf sheaths joined to middle or above; awns recurved.

awns white villous throughout.

This is an easily recognizable species because of its spirally coiling awns and filamentous glume tips.

Some specimens from NE India have exserted, geniculate awns to 7 mm long.

Glumes awned, the awns often sticky.

having a growth of hair-like awns.

Stems subglabrous or stellate puberulent, rooting at nodes; mericarps with 2 short awns.

anthers with 2 reflexed awns near apex, opening by 2 terminal pores.

Since golden awns and blue sisters I have.

Spikelets ca. 15 mm excluding awns, with 2(or 3) florets.

awns arising directly from lemma apex;

lemma ca. 9 mm, dark purple, scabrid in upper part, awns arising directly from lemma apex;