Echinochloa crus-galli var. praticola ("Himeinubie")

Japanese name: ヒメイヌビエ （姫犬稗）
Scientific name: Echinochloa crus-galli var. praticola

[Overview]
An annual 30–60 cm tall that prefers neutral grassland, neither wet nor dry, and is also found along roadsides.
It is smaller overall and more slender than Inubie.
The stem branches.
The leaves are linear, 30–50 cm long and 0.5–1 cm wide, with no ligule.
The spikelets are borne on slender flower spikes; the branches of the spike are sparse and short, and even the long branches do not branch again.
The spikelets are ovate, 2.5–3 mm long, with stiff bristles and no awns.
The first glume is small, less than half the length of the spikelet.

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