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Family: Poaceae   Grass Family
Plant group comprising one of the largest families of flowering plants. Formerly referred to as Graminae.

Genus: Eriochloa   Cupgrass
Tribe Paniceae.

Scientific Name: Eriochloa villosa (Thunb.) Kunth
Common Name(s): Hairy Cupgrass, Woolly Cupgrass
Growth Type: annual
Species Description:


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Caption:

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-017
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: A patch of woolly cupgrass growing in a road ditch next to a corn field in late summer.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-007
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: A patch of woolly cupgrass plants growing next to corn plants.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-023
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: A woolly cupgrass' growth habit.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-019
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): vegetative
Caption: Large, round woolly cupgrass seeds with basal cup-shaped appendages.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-008
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): seed
Caption: Mature woolly cupgrass inflorescence of many racemes and crinkled-edge leaf.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-006
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: Mature woolly cupgrass inflorescence of many racemes.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-002
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: Mature woolly cupgrass inflorescence of many racemes.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-004
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: Mature woolly cupgrass inflorescence with many racemes.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-011
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: Mature woolly cupgrass inflorescence with several racemes.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-013
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: Mature woolly cupgrass inflorescence with several racemes.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-025
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: Mature woolly cupgrass inflorescence with woolly rachises and many racemes.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-005
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: Mature woolly cupgrass patch growing among corn.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-003
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: Woolly cupgrass inflorescence with hairy rachises and pedicels.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-012
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): flowering, inflorescense
Caption: Woolly cupgrass inflorescence with hairy rachises and pedicels.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-020
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): inflorescense, mature
Caption: Woolly cupgrass leaf with crinkled leaf edges.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-022
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): leaf
Caption: Woolly cupgrass leaves with crinkled leaf edges.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-014
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): leaf
Caption: Woolly cupgrass plants with emerging inflorescence growing among corn.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-010
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): flowering, inflorescense
Caption: Woolly cupgrass seedling with fibrous root systems.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-021
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): root, seedling
Caption: Woolly cupgrass seedling with fibrous root systems.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-024
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): root, seedling
Caption: Woolly cupgrass seedling with wide first emerging leaf and crinkled leaf edges.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-001
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): seedling
Caption: Woolly cupgrass seedling with wide, round, first emerging leaf and with fibrous root system.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-016
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): root, seedling
Caption: Woolly cupgrass seedlings with fibrous root systems.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-018
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): root, seedling
Caption: Woolly cupgrass seeds being compared to yellow foxtail seeds.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-009
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): seed
Caption: Woolly cupgrass with hairy ligule and pubescent crinkled-edge leaf.

ID: Hrb-ERBVI-015
Source: 35mm slide (photo)
Credit:
Keyword(s): leaf