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Key for Silver Grasses

1.Flower-head up to 10 cm long and well exserted from the leaf sheath; lower glume 2.5-5 mm long
Squirrel-tail Fescue
(Vulpia bromoides)
1.Flower-head up to 30 cm long with its base enclosed by the leaf sheath; lower glume 0.5-2.5 mm long
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2.Margins of the upper parts of the floret without hairs
Rat’s-tail Fescue
(Vulpia myuros forma myuros)
2.Margins of the upper parts of the floret with short hairs
Rat’s-tail Fescue
(Vulpia myuros forma megalura)