Anthoxanthum aristatum, Boiss.

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4. A. aristatum Boiss. , Voy. Bot. Midi Esp. 2: 638 (1842).

Annual. Stems 5-60 cm, often freely branched. Leaves 1-5 mm wide, glabrous or hairy, scabrid; sheaths smooth, often somewhat inflated; ligule 1 -2 mm, acute. Inflorescence 1 -4 cm, usually lax and lobed, tapering at base. Spikelets (.4—)6—7 mm, usually 10 or more. Glumes hyaline, with green keel, the upper exceeding the florets and enfolding them. Lemma of sterile florets with sericeous hairs in lower part; awn of upper sterile floret somewhat longer than the floret. Lemma of fertile floret suborbicular,

glabrous. Dry, open habitats. S. Europe; a frequent casual further north, mainly as a cornfield weed, and locally naturalized. Al Az BI Bu Co Ga Hs It Ju Lu Sa [Be Br Da Ge Ho Po Rs (B)].