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Texas 4-H Master Plant List
Grass Quiz
Open Panicle Inflorescence
Robust root system
Very small seeds
Part of the dropseed family.
ALKALI SACATON
PWNPF
BAHIAGRASS
PWIPF
Inflorescence usually has2 branches (sometimes 3) -3-5 inches
Purple rhizomes
BARNYARDGRASS
AWIPP
Broad leaves up to 1 inch wide
Inflorescence with 8-15 branches;That may have awns.
Beaked Panicum
PWNFG
Open panicle 5-10in W by 10-18 in H
Seed are curved like a “beak”
Scaly rhizomes
Bermudagrass
PWIPGStoloniferous
Inflorescence: 3-6 branches; thin
Big Bluestem
PWNPG
Tall – 6-7 ft.
Inflorescence: 3-5 branches (turkey foot)
Hair on leaves and stem ONLY when young
Black grama
PWNGG
Fuzzy – slick stems
Stolons
Grama inflorescence
Blue grama
PWNGG
No black dots on inflor.
No “stinger” on inflor.
Inflor. looks like an eyebrow
Broomsedge bluestem
PWNPP
Flat base
Bunchgrass
Thick (like a broom) silver inflor.
Brownseed paspalum
PWNFF
Limousin eye seed (dark with light ring)
Inflor. 3-7 branches
Round seeds
Buffalograss
PWNFG
Stolons
Short (6-12inches tall)
Inflor. Branches 2-3; short
Buffelgrass
PWIPG
Burrograss
PWNPP
Bush muhly
PWNPG
Short internodes
Tad pole seeds
California cottontop
Green seeds with thickCotton-like hair
Canada wildrye
PCNFG
Inflor.: makes V shapeLong awns (cold in canada)