Perennial Ryegrass

(Lolium perenne)

Characteristics

Leaves	Auricles	Flowers

Growing habits: Erect cool-season short-lived perennial, grows in clumps

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from stolons

Leaf anatomy: Leaves linear, glabrous, sometimes scabrous on upper leaf surface, membranous ligule, comspicuous auricles

Reproduction: Compressed spike inflorescences with 2-ranked spikelets

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}