Poa crassinervis ("Tsukushisuzumenokatabira")

Japanese name: ツクシスズメノカタビラ （筑紫雀の帷子）
Scientific name: Poa crassinervis

[Overview]
An annual or biennial 5–30 cm tall, found near houses.
It often grows in colonies.
The whole plant is soft, and the stems form clumps.
The leaves are simple and alternate, linear, 2–8 cm long and about 0.3 cm wide.
Conical inflorescences 3–8 cm long bear many pale green, elliptic spikelets.
The second glume is elliptic and narrow, and its margin does not appear to bend abruptly.
The veins of the lemma bear many hairs.
The branches of the inflorescence are slightly ascending and smooth.

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