Phleum pratense L. Timothy Habit: Short-lived perennial, from a bulblike base, forming large clumps. Culms: Erect, glabrous and smooth, 5-100 cm. tall. Blades: Flat, 7-20 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, usually somewhat scabrous. Sheaths: Often exceeding the internodes, the upper longer and close. Ligule: Membranous, 2-3 mm. long. Inflorescence: A dense cylindric spikelike panicle, 5-10 cm. long or more, 5-8 mm. thick. Spikelets: 1-flowered, flower perfect, flattened, excluding the awns 2.5-3 mm. long, disarticulating above the glumes. Glumes: Equal, about 3.5-mm. long, membranous, ciliate on the keels, truncate with a stout awn 1 mm. long. Lemmas: About half as long as the glumes, membranous, hyaline, truncate, 3-5-nerved. Palea: Narrow, nearly as long as the lemma. Habitat: Meadows; native, but also often escaped from cultivation, along roadsides and in fields. June-August. Kansas Range: Throughout. Synonyms: Phleum nodosum L. Phleum pratense L. var. nodosum (L.) Huds. Phleum pratense L. ssp. nodosum (L.) Arcang.