Poa annua
Common Name: annual bluegrass, speargrass, wintergrass
Scientific Name: Poa annua L.
Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass Family
Identification Notes
Life Cycle:
introduced winter annual, reproducing by seed
Culms:
smooth, dense tufts, spreading, lower nodes often rooting 
Leaves:
blades smooth, boat-shaped tip, light green, often with short wrinkled segment mid-blade, folded in bud; auricles absent; ligule membranous, white, peaked; sheaths smooth, compressed 
Seedheads:
panicle, cone-shaped, open, light green to white, branched spikelets 
