Common Name: annual bluegrass, speargrass, wintergrassScientific Name: Poa annua L.Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced winter annual, reproducing by seed Culmssmooth, dense tufts, spreading, lower nodes often rooting Leavesblades 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 Seedheadspanicle, cone-shaped, open, light green to white, branched spikelets