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The name "foxtail" is applied to a number of grasses that have bushy spikes of spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox. Not all of these are hazardous; most of the hazardous ones are in the genus Hordeum, and are also called "wild barley".
Grasses known as foxtails include:
- Alopecurus (foxtail grasses - the scientific name literally means "fox tail")
- Bromus madritensis (foxtail brome)
- Hordeum jubatum (Foxtail Barley)
- Setaria (foxtail millets)
Other grasses also produce hazardous spikelets. The spikelets are sometimes called foxtails, even though the grasses are not.
Read more about this topic: Foxtail (diaspore)
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