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Weed Description: A summer annual grass weed that emits a distinctive odor. Stinkgrass is a common grass weed of many agronomic crops, pastures, hayfields, and noncrop areas. |
Stinkgrass: Eragrostis cilianensis
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Weed Description: A summer annual grass weed that emits a distinctive odor. Stinkgrass is a common grass weed of many agronomic crops, pastures, hayfields, and noncrop areas. |
| Seedling: Seedlings develop into tufted plants relatively quickly. Leaves are without auricles and have ligules that are less than 1 mm long and a fringe of hairs. |  |
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Leaves: Leaves are rolled in the bud and are approximately 5 to 10 mm wide. Leaves are smooth and glossy below while upper leaf surfaces are rough and may have hairs along the margins. Auricles are absent and the ligule is a fringe of hairs that is usually less than 1 mm long. |
| Stems: Sheaths are round to slightly flattened, without hairs except occasionally where the leaf joins to the sheath. |  |
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Roots: A fibrous root system. |
| Flowers: Seedhead a triangular panicle that has a grayish green cast. Panicles may reach 8 inches in length and consist of spikelets that are approximately 3/4 inch long. Individual spikelets are gray to silver in color. |  |
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Identifying Characteristics: Annual grass that emits an unpleasant odor and has ligules that are less than 1 mm long and are a fringe of hairs. The distinctive grayish-green panicle also helps to distinguish this weed from other similar grasses. |