eeds of the Grelains, nor Weeds of the Northeast)

  Cool-season annual grass with very slender upright stems and leaves, grows 4-12 inches tall

·         Not a true fescue grass

    Leaves soft, slender, light-green to gray green without hairs,      Found in dry and infertile soils as

Rat-tail Fescue

Vulpia myuros (L.) K.C. Gmel.

Poaceae (Grass Family)

▲▼ mature plants

▲ mature plant

▲ inflorescences

Rattail Fescue: 

·         Cool-season annual grass with very slender upright stems and leaves, grows 4-12 inches tall

·         Not a true fescue grass

·         Leaves soft, slender, light-green to gray green without hairs

·         Inflorescence is a long, spike-like, feathery compressed panicle

·         Found in dry and infertile soils as well as some compacted soil sites