Weed IdentificationGrasses

National Railroad Contractors Association

Crabgrass Summer annual

Flat, spreading

4 part seed structure

Bearded sprangletopAnnual

Foxtail - Summer Annual

Green foxtail Giant foxtail Yellow foxtail

Compact seed head bent, straight, drooping

Grasses - Perennial

Bermudagrass Perennial – Stolon

Stolons – horizontal above ground stems

Cattail Perennial – Creeping rhizome

Rhizomes – horizontal underground stems

Compact brown flower head

Long narrow leaves

Johnson Grass - Creeping rhizome

Reproduces by creeping rhizomehorizontal underground stem

Reddish flower

structure

seedling

Tall mature plant

Phragmites (common reed)