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Questions and Answers: 2021

Question: Growing at the edge of a lawn in Massachusetts. I don't know if it's an ornamental or a wild species.

  • Question

    Growing at the edge of a lawn in Massachusetts. I don't know if it's an ornamental or a wild species.

    Answer

    Dear jfc, the image appears to capture Dactylus glomerata (orchard grass), a fairly common grass in New England with somewhat one-sided clusters of spikelets on short, stiff panicle branches. If correct, you would find this species to have a closed sheath (the edges of the leaf sheath is fused together into a closed tube around the stem, except at the very summit of the sheath).