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Habitat: Fields; commonly cultivated, uncommonly persistent or volunteering after cultivation
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Spike 6-15cm long including awns, 12-15mm broad, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Spikelets alternate on opposite sides of rachis, mostly 2-flowered, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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In habit resembling wheat, but usually taller, spike more slender, nodding, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).
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The lemmas have awns 2-6 cm long, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
Habitat: Roadsides, fields, pastures, ditches, disturbed areas
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Culms 10-60cm tall, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Spikelet clusters alternate on opposite sides of the rachis, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Spikes 2-8cm long, 5-7mm broad, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Moist forests, dry forests especially over more fertile soils
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Lemmas convex, rigid, tapering into slender, straight awns 1-4cm long, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).
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Awned spikelets spread at right angles to rachis; glumes absent or reduced, per How to Know the Grasses: Pictured Key Nature Series (Pohl, 1954).
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Spikelets usually 2 per node of rachis, usually horizontally divergent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Rachis internodes 5-10mm, spikelets horizontally spreading toward maturity, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).
Habitat: Moist forests
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The "bow-legged" glumes are a good mark of recognition, per How to Know the Grasses: Pictured Key Nature Series (Pohl, 1954).
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Can be confused with Secale cereale which often nods but has longer bristles, per Grasses, an Identification Guide (Brown, 1979).
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Elymus species' spikelets are sessile, usually in 2s, alternating on spike, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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