Cynosurus

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Cynosurus L.

• Description

  Genus Description - Spikelets dimorphic, the sterile and fertile paired; sterile spikelets consisting of 2 glumes and several narrow, scabrous, acuminate lemmas on a continuous rachilla, borne in front of the fertile spikelets and nearly covering them; fertile spikelets 2–4-fld, the rachilla disarticulating; glumes narrow, unequal; lemmas broader, rounded on the back, scabrous, awn-tipped; lvs narrow; spikelets densely crowded in a spike-like or capitate panicle. 4, Europe and Medit. reg.

• Common Names

  dog's-tail grass