Foxtail Grass
Pennisetum alopecuroides Nafray Swamp Foxtail Grass.
Foxtail grass. The seeds are convex oval or elliptical and light yellow to brown rusty or black in color. Great for mass planting accent planting for rockeries and borders. Pennisetum alopecuroides L Spreng.
Grass awns have a short bristled section on one end and a sharper stump. Alopecurus or foxtail grass is a common and widespread genus of plants in the grass family. The foxtail plant is a grass-like weed.
It is mostly found in the Western half of the US. It gets its name from the bushy seed heads it produces which look like foxes tails. Three species are common in the United States.
It is common across temperate and subtropical parts of Eurasia northern Africa and the Americas as well as naturalized in Australia and on various islands. To come back year after year it drops hundreds and hundreds of seeds into the soil. Tolerates windy conditions and salt laden windsPlumes suitable for dried arrangements.
1992 damp places in cleared forest or woodland mountain gullies Burbidge. Foxtail grass is native to Asia and Europe but can be found anywhere in the world now. Map showing the present distribution of this weed.
Foxtail is a summer annual grass meaning it grows from seed in the spring and dies in the fall. The flowering stems of wild grasses have a characteristic shape that is often called an inflorescence or head. Small infestations of foxtail should be spot treated while larger infestations require whole pasture renovation.