Six-weeks fescue

Vulpia octoflora (also placed in Festuca as F. octoflora), known as six-weeks fescue, pullout grass, or eight-flowered fescue, is a small annual bunchgrass of the Poaceae native to almost all of North America, from much of Canada through all 48 contiguous United States to Baja California, Mexico. The species favors open, sunny, often dry or disturbed sites including sandy soils, rocky outcrops, roadsides, and post-fire ground, where its short life cycle allows it to colonize rapidly. Tufted stems 5-50 cm tall bear narrow, rolled, glabrous to sparsely hairy leaf blades. The inflorescence is a slender, contracted panicle of stiffly erect, narrow spikelets, each typically containing 5-13 florets (despite the specific epithet 'octoflora'); long, straight awns project from the lemmas. Three varieties are recognized: var. glauca, var. hirtella, and var. octoflora.