Botanical name: Alopecurus pratensis    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Tozzettia pratensis, Alopecurus laxiflorus, Alopecurus pallidus

Meadow Foxtail is a perennial, loosely clustered grass with stems erect, slightly geniculate at base, up to 1 m tall, 35-noded. Leaf sheaths are loose, smooth, slightly inflated; leaf blades 5-25 cm, 3-10 mm wide, lower surface smooth, upper surface scaberulous; ligule 2-4 mm. Flowers are borne in cylindrical panicles, 3-8 cm, gray-green. Spikelets are elliptic, 4-6 mm; glumes herbaceous, smooth, keels stiffly fringed with hairs. Awns protrude 3-6 mm from spikelet, weakly geniculate, column not twisted. Anthers are yellow, 2-3.5 mm. Meadow Foxtail is found in mountain meadows, forest margins, river valleys, at altitudes of 1500-2500 m, in Europe to Siberia, Mongolia and W. Himalaya. Flowering: April-June.

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