Timothy

Phleum pratense L. Sp. PI. 59. 1753
Phleum nodosum var. pratense St.-Amans, Fl. Agen. 23. 1821. (Based on Phleum pratense L.) Plantinia pratensis Bubani, Fl. Pyren. 4: 270. 1901. (Based on Phleum pratense Huds. [error for L.].) Slelephuros pratensis Lunell, Am. Midi. Nat. 4: 216. 1915. (Based on Phleum pratense L.)
Culms tufted, erect from a swollen or bulblike base, glabrous or slightly roughened, 50100 cm. tall; sheaths glabrous or nearly so; ligule 2-4 mm. long; blades flat, acuminate, scabrous, elongate, mostly 5-8 mm. wide; panicles spikelike, cylindric, erect, dense, abruptly rounded at both ends, commonly 5-10 cm. long, sometimes longer, the spikelets crowded, spreading; glumes about 3.5 mm. long, truncate, with a stout awn 1 mm. long, pectinate-ciliate on the keels; lemma delicate, about 2 mm. long.
Type locality: Europe.
Distribution: Commonly escaped from cultivation along roadsides and in fields and waste places throughout the United States; Eurasia. Commonlv cultivated as a meadow grass, Timothy.