Jointed Goatgrass

Aegilops cylindrica Host

Poaceae (Grass Family)

▲▼ mature plants

▲▼ mature plants

▲ flowering plant

▲▼ close-up of jointed inflorescence spike

Jointed Goatgrass:  (pp. 394-395, Weeds of the Great Plains—not in Weeds of the Northeast)

·         Cool season annual grass frequently in wheat fields and other winter annual crops

·         Has mostly upright, slender, mostly hairless leaves

·         Inflorescence is a spike of stacked spikelets which break apart at maturity

·         Each spikelet is awned, with longer awns on tip spikelets—very unique inflorescence