Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia

Jointed Goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica)

Provincial Noxious Weed
winter annual grass with erect stems growing 0.4 to 0.8 metres tall
seeds are produced in joint-like structures on the cylindrical flowering spike
not known from British Columbia but approaching our border in the Pacific Northwest states

Hairy auricles and evenly spaced hairs on leaf edges

Photos courtesy Dean Swan, Washington State University (retired)

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