Botanical name: Polypogon fugax    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Nowodworskya fugax, Polypogon demissus, Polypogon higegaweri

Asian Minor Bluegrass is an annual grass with stems 15-60 cm high, often prostrate at the base and rooting from the lower nodes. Leaf-blades are 2-16 cm long, 2-11 mm wide, rough; ligule 2-8 mm long. Flower panicles are narrowly ovate, oblong or cylindrical, usually lobed, 3-15 cm long, 05-5 cm wide, dense but hardly bristly, pale green or yellowish. Spikelets 1.8-2.4 mm long; glumes slightly notched at the tip, rough with minute points especially in the lower part, minutely hairy on the margins, with a fine straight awn 0.6-3 mm long; lemma about half the length of the glumes, smooth, awnless or with an awn up to 2 mm long. Asian Minor Bluegrass is found in NE Tropical Africa to Central Asia and Japan, including the Himalayas, at altitudes of 1o00-3600 m. Flowering: May-August.

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