July 15, 2013

 

 

romantic grass of the week: paspalum dilatatum (sticky heads) is the most common paspalum in australia. is a common weed in lawns like this (note the blue-green over fertilized grass..) often ends (sessile) in a clawlike (pedicilled) paired spikelet. the spikelets are flat on one side and convex on the other the lower floret barren and upper floret fertile