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Silver Hairgrass |
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| Halbi Name |
 Main Photo of The Weed |
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| Vernacular name | Chandi fool ghans | |
| Scientific name | Aira charysophylla L | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Small, thin, to long, broad, scabrous. Sheaths scabrous. Ligule scarious, to +/-3mm long, typically erose on the margins, Acuminate leaf apex | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | axillary-flower |   |
| Fruit/ seed | ||
| Habitat and distribution | Waste places, crop rotation, grassland. | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to November | |
| Associated with | Cultivated upland fields & Roadside. | |
| Habit | Tall, erect, multiple from base, glabrous, from fibrous roots. | |
| Inflorescence | Open, branched panicle making up 1/3 to 1/2 of the plant height. Panicle branches ascending, glabrous. Stalks of the individual spikelets to 5mm long, glabrous. | |
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