| Scientific Name: | Lolium multiflorum |
| Common Name: | annual ryegrass, Italian ryegrass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true), Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Golf green, Lawn - sports field |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Green, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Bunching-tufted habit, fast growing, leaf vernation rolled, blade underside glossy, 3-7mm wide, margins smooth, tapering to a sharp and long pointed tip; auricles clasping, claw-like; ligule 0.1-2mm, entire; sheath usually reddish at base. Field ID terms: clasping auricles, rolled, pointy. | |