Weed ID

[TimWafer]

Can anyone ID this grass for me? It has extremely fine seeds.

Maybe we need a weed of the day post to help us uneducated.

 

[ohiojim]

can't tell how big it is, but looks a lot like johnson grass

 

[steve in ok]

Looks like what we call tickle grass to me. Google Agrostis Scabra and see what you think.

 

[TimWafer]

Its about 2 to 2-1/2 feet tall

 

[TimWafer]

"Looks like what we call tickle grass to me. Google Agrostis Scabra and see what you think"

Well, the pictures I see of that looks like it grows in clumps. This seems to be individual stalks. I'm in central NY if that helps.

 

[Ray IN]

In Indiana that is called Fall panicum.

 

[4520BW]

I agree with ray. It comes on thick this time of year.

 

[fusion]

Is it a warm season or a cool season grass

 

[JDseller]

I will second Fall panicum. Makes a corn head act like a dump rake.

 

[john in Utah]

I'd agree with the guys who think it is Fall Panicum (Panicum dichotomiflorum). Pretty hard to ID plants, especially grasses, from low-detail photos, though.

 

[Adirondack case guy]

That stuff is terrible this fall. This is a pic of an oat field combined earlier on
the farm. My cousin mowed some of it with disc mower conditioner yesterday but I think
he just wasted his time and may promote it even worse. If we get some rain, I will try
to plow it under. I'm not sure that I can plow under his windrows though.

 

[JD2ACWD]

i have a lot of it in my new seeding can cattle it ,is it harmful?

 

[stonerock]

ohiojim, looks like what we would call Johnson grass in centeral ohio

 

[r.w.b.]

Johnsons wonder grass.after developement wonder
was dropped.its bad in missouri worse in oklahoma
and texas

 

[Jim Phelps]

As they stated Johnson grass, it will take over everything if you don't watch out, I heard in Maryland you can get fined for
letting it grow on your land.

 

[MikeinKy]

i have lots of johnson grass and that aint it. fall panicum

 

[MJMJ]

It's not Johnson grass, but I can see why people think it is. But with something near it for scale I think it would become more obvious. It's fall panicum.