Common name: Rough Meadowgrass
Poa trivialis L. APNI* 
Description: Loosely tufted perennial to 1 m high.
Leaves with sheath usually minutely scabrous, compressed and keeled; ligule 4–10 mm long, thinly membranous, acute to acuminate; blade flat or folded, 1.5–6 mm wide, flaccid or firm, finely scabrous to nearly smooth.
Panicle erect or nodding, open and loose to contracted and dense, 3–20 cm long, branches fine, spreading. Spikelets compressed, mostly 3–4 mm long, 2–4-flowered. Glumes acute to acuminate, lower 2–3 mm long, usually 1-nerved; upper 2.5–3.5 mm long, 3-nerved. Lemmas 2.5–3.5 mm long, shortly hairy on the keel to about the middle, otherwise glabrous, distinctly 5-nerved; web moderately copious. Palea minutely scabrid on the keels.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Uncommon weed of lawns and pastures. Native of Medit. region.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *ST, *SWS
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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