Littleseed Canarygrass-Grass
Family
Phalaris minor
Canarygrass
Characteristics. This Mediterranean import
commonly occurs in barley, wheat, seedling alfalfa and other winter cultivated
crops as well as landscape and waste areas of
Identifying Characteristics.
This
winter annual grows to 3 feet tall with bluish-green foliage and weak stems
that bend at their base. The leaves are
folded or flat to ½ inch wide and 18 inches long. The flower heads are short, relatively thick,
oblong and 1 to 3 inches long. Young
seedlings often exude a red pigment when broken at the base.
The flower
heads are short, thick and oblong varying from 1 to 3 inches in length with
densely crowded spiklets that overlap and are sharply
pointed.
