Crowfoot Grass (Dactyloctenium Aegyptium)
Poaceae (Grass family)
Group: Monocot (Grass)
Annual grass native of Eurasian tropics commonly found in cultivated fields, disturbed sites, and roadsides.
Seedling leaf and sheath are smooth with long stiff hairs along the margin. Ligule is a fringed membrane.
Leaf blade is smooth or with long stiff trichomes, and hairy margins. Leaf sheath is not hairy. Ligule is a membrane with a fringe of hairs at the top.
Flower or seedhead is like a crow’s foot. Spikelets are arranged on two to six fingers radiating at the tip of the stem with outer tips extended resembling a crow’s foot.
Stems are bent and root at lower nodes, tips ascend, and can grow up to 28 inches tall.
Propagation is by seed.
