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RANGE: Barnyardgrass is found throughout the United States and Mexico

APPEARANCE: The leaves of barnyardgrass are rolled in the bud and contain neither a ligule nor auricles; the sheath is open but compressed. The mid-vein is thick and keeled; roots are fibrous.

GROWTH: Barnyardgrass is a summer annual which has tillers which lie flat and form secondary roots resulting in a mat formation. Barnyardgrass spreads by seed which germinate in late spring and early summer. The seedhead is a coarsely branched green to purplish panicle with spiked awns.

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