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Questions and Answers: 2019

Question: Growing beside a trail in the woods in the Blue Hills south of Boston.

  • Question

    Growing beside a trail in the woods in the Blue Hills south of Boston.

    Answer

    jfc, this is Avenella flexuosa (wavy-hair-grass), a native grass of woodlands, forests, and outcrops (among other habitats). It has very narrow leaves and the awns (bristles) that project from each spikelet. It is a beautiful grass.