Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia
Jointed Goatgrass
(Aegilops cylindrica)
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- Provincial Noxious Weed
- winter annual grass with erect stems growing 0.4 to 0.8 metres
tall
- seeds are produced in joint-like structures on the cylindrical
flowering spike
- not known from British Columbia but approaching our border in
the Pacific Northwest states
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Hairy auricles and evenly spaced hairs on leaf edges
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Photos courtesy Dean Swan, Washington State University (retired)
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