Festuca octoflora Walt.
Sixweeks Fescue

Habit:  	Annual, usually tufted.
Culms: 		Slender, 5-40 cm. high, simple, glabrous or retrorsely puberulent.
Blades: 	Less than 2 mm. wide, involute or rarely flat, 2-10 cm. long, soft, erect or ascending.
Sheaths: 	Shorter than the internodes, loose.
Ligule: 	Membranous, short.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle narrow, erect, racemiform or one-sided, 3-12 cm. long, the branches
		short, appressed, rarely spreading.
Spikelets: 	5-10 mm. long, densely 3-13 flowered, the rachilla articulate between the flowers.
Glumes: 	2, membranous, narrow, unequal, keeled, acute, the first mostly nerved,
		about 2.5 mm. long, the second 3-nerved, 4 mm. long.
Lemmas: 	More or less divergent, about 3.5-5 mm. long, acuminate, involute, convex,
		glabrous or scabrous, obscurely 5-nerved, usually awned; awn commonly 2-5 mm. long.
Palea: 		A little shorter than its lemma, 2-keeled.
Flower: 	Usually with but 1 stamen, and self-pollinated.
Habitat: 	Open sterile ground. April-July.
Kansas Range:	Throughout.
Remarks:	A common pasture weed.
Synonyms:	Vulpia octoflora (Walt.) Rydb. var. octoflora  sixweeks fescue
		Festuca octoflora Walt.
		Festuca octoflora Walt. var. aristulata Torr. ex L.H. Dewey