Botanical name: Chloris virgata    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Rabdochloa virgata, Chloris alba, Chloris elegans, Chloris tibestica

Feather Finger Grass is an annual grass, with stems clustered, erect or geniculately rising up, slightly flattened, 15-100 cm tall. Basal leaf sheaths are strongly keeled, hairless; leaf blades flat or folded, 5-30 cm, 2-7 mm wide, hairless, upper surface scabrous, tip tapering; ligule 0.5-1 mm, hairless or fringed with hairs. Flowers racemes are digitate, 5-12, erect or slightly slanting, 2-10 cm, silky, pale brown or tinged pink or purple; axis scabrous or bristly. Spikelets have 2 or 3 florets, 2-awned; lower glume 1.8-2.2 mm; upper glume 3-4 mm, tapering; lemma of fertile floret obovate-lanceshaped in side view, 2.8-3.5 mm, keel gibbous, prominently bearded on upper margins with a spreading cluster of 2.5-3.5 mm silky hairs, margins, keel and flanks silky-fringed with hairs or hairless; awn 5-15 mm; second floret sterile, oblong, hairless, awn 4-10 mm; third floret occasionally present, reduced to a small club-shaped scale, awnless. Feather Finger Grass is native to Temperate & Subtropical America, naturalized widely around the world. It is naturalized in India, including Ladakh.

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