Phleum subulatum (Savi) Asch. & Graebn.

Phleum subulatum (Savi) Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2 1 :
154. 1899.
Phalaris bulbosa L. Cent. PI. 1: 4. 1755. (Type from "Oriente.") Phalaris subulata Savi, Fl. Pis. 1: 57. 1798.
Phalaris Bellardi Willd. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin Neue Schr. 3: 415. 1801. (Type from Europe.) Phalaris tenuis Host, Gram. Austr. 2: 27. 1802. (Type from Europe.) Phleum tenue Schrad. Fl. Germ. 1: 191. 1806. (Based on Phalaris tenuis Host.) Phleum Bellardi [" Bellardii") Willd. Enum. 1: 85. 1809. (Based on Phalaris Bellardi Willd.) Phleum bulbosum K. Richt. PI. Eur. 1: 37. 1890. (Based on Phalaris bulbosa L.) Not Phleum bulbosum Gouan, 1765.
Annual; culms usually numerous, bushy-branched, erect to prostrate, 10-20 cm. tall; sheaths glabrous or scaberulous, the upper often inflated; ligule pointed, as much as 5 mm. long; blades glabrous or nearly so, narrow, gradually sharp-pointed, 3-6 cm. long; panicles narrowly cylindric, 3-8 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide; spikelets compressed, 2 mm. long; glumes strongly 3-nerved, glabrous, acute; lemma scarcely half as long as the glumes.
Type locality: Italy.
Distribution: Ballast, near Philadelphia, and near Portland, Oregon; Mediterranean region.