Lolium multiflorum

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Annual, biennial or short-lived perennial. Stems 50-70 cm, with 2-5 nodes. Ligule obtuse, truncate or erose, to 4 mm. Auricles usually present. Leaf blades 11-20 cm x 2-4 mm, convolute in young shoots, usually scabridulous above. Spike straight or slightly curved, 14-30 cm, rachis slender, straight or slightly flexuous, scabridulous, 0.7-2 mm thick at nodes. Spikelets 12-16 mm , with 8-16 fertile and 0-1 rudimentary florets. Upper glume lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 5.5-8 mm. Lemmas 5-6 mm, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, not turgid; awn usually present, 2.5-5.5 mm, scabrid, rarely absent Mature caryopses 2.63.8 x 0.7-1.5 mm. Fl. 8-9. Waste ground, at low altitudes; also cultivated.

Europe, Mediterranean area, Transcaucasia, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Egypt; introduced in N. & S. America, Australia, Japan and China.