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  • COMMON NAME: Annual beard grass, rabbits foot grass.
  • ARABIC: ديل القطوه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf.
  • SYNONYMS: Agrostis alopecuroides, Agrostis panicea, Agrostis tenuissima, Agrostis triaristata
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/polypogon_monspeliensis.htm M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Grazed by livestock.
A tufted, annual, glabrous grasses, 10-60 cm high. Culms erect or ascending, smooth, slender. Leaf-blades flat, linear-lanceolate, dark-green, 5-15 cm long, 2-9 mm wide. Ligule long, membranous. Panicle very dense, soft, bristly, oblong, cylindrical, 3-10 cm long. Spikelets 2-3 mm long. Glumes nearly equal, rounded at back pubescent, longer than the floret, glumes and lemma awned, the awn of the glumes 2-3 times as long as the glume. Grains minute, ovate. Flowering from February to May.
Rocky places and in cultivated field and damp places.
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