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Bay Grasses Identification Key

Fruits and Seeds in a Spike

Look carefully at each individual leaf using only your naked eye and choose from among the following:

Leaves with a Midrib
midrib leaf diagram


Each leaf has a midrib, or single, prominent central vein, running down the center for its entire length.

Leaves without a Midrib
leaf wihout midrub diagram


Leaves have no midribs.

If you don't think your plant is represented above try going back a level and choosing again.