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Agrostis gigantea ~ redtop

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Characteristics:

• FACW

• Michigan C Value: 0

• this grass is rhizomatous but not stoloniferous

• culms erect and nearly straight

• larger blades mostly 3mm to 7mm wide

• spikelets are typically a bit purplish or redish when fresh

• middle panicle branches angled 30 to 45 degrees from panicle axis

• each culm is slender, glabrous, and round in cross section

• the sheath of each leaf is open and hairless; tendency to split open into a deep V shape, sometimes to the node

• node at the base of each sheath is reddish purplish and hairless

• typically reddish inflorescence

• this is a common grass in many habitats

• native and non–native types