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Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua L.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich
Larry W. Mitich*
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Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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The grasses or Poaceae (Gramineae) comprise some 9,000 species grouped into about 650 taxa. Although not the largest, the family is ecologically the most dominant and economically the most important in the world (Heywood 1993).

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Intriguing World of Weeds
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Weed Technology , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 1998, pp. 414 - 416
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Copyright © 1998 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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