Sweet Vernal Grass
| INVASIVE | |
| Scientific Name: | Anthoxanthum odoratum |
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NOTES: Often slightly kneed at the nodes. Vanilla-scented when cut. Native to Eurasia and North Africa.
| INVASIVE | |
| Scientific Name: | Anthoxanthum odoratum |
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| Genus species: | Anthoxanthum odoratum | ||||||||||
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| Common Name: | Sweet Vernal Grass | ||||||||||
| Family Name: | Poaceae 
Annual or perennial herbs, or woody in a few genera; stems terete, internodes hollow or solid; leaves alternate, 2-ranked, simple, and parallel-veined, with sheathing bases, the sheaths usually open, typically with a ligule at junction of sheath and blade; flowers (florets) bisexual or unisexual, subtended by bracts (a lemma and usually a palea), in spikelets usually subtended by a pair of bracts (glumes); fruit a caryopsis. | ||||||||||
| Seed Type: | Angiosperm | ||||||||||
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Nonnative | ||||||||||
| Category: | Grass | ||||||||||
| Identified by: | J.D. Mancini | ||||||||||
| Months in Bloom: The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicate when the plant has been observed blooming. | |||||||||||
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