Agrostis stolonifera L.
Redtop

Habit: 		Tufted perennial, with strong, creeping rhizomes.
Culms: 		20 -150 cm. tall, erect from a more or less decumbent base.
Blades: 	4-15 cm. long, 3-8 mm. wide, flat, stiff and upright to lax and spreading, scabrous.
Sheaths: 	Shorter than the internodes.
Ligule: 	Membranous, 3-5 mm. long, fringed.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle upright, exerted, 5-30 cm. long, with spreading branches, the lower
		usually verticillate, contracted after flowering, greenish or reddish, the branches slightly rough.
Spikelets: 	2-2.5 mm. long, numerous, small, 1-flowered, long or short scabrous pedicels, rachilla
		disarticulating above the glumes, and not prolonged.
Glumes: 	Persistent, membranous, scabrous on the keel, acute, awnless, 2-3 mm. long, pale or purplish, nearly equal.
Lemmas: 	Two thirds to three fourths as long as the glumes, obtuse, seldom awned, thin-hyaline.
		Awn, if present, from near the base.
Palea: 		One half to two thirds as long as its lemma, thin-hyaline.
Fruit: 		Grain loosely enclosed in the lemma.
Habitat: 	Wet meadows, fields and along streams.  June-September.
Kansas Range:	Eastern edge.
Use: 		Cultivated in meadows, pastures and lawns.
Synonyms:	Agrostis stolonifera L. var. compacta Hartman
		Agrostis stolonifera L. var. palustris (Huds.) Farw.