What type of grass weed

[Mark Reynolds]

I was always told to cut the stem...if the cross-section is triangular, it is a sedge. If round, it is a grass. But I'm no grassologist.

Sedges have edges, rushes are round, Grasses have nodes all the way to the ground. Nodes are the conspicuous raised places on a grass stem that give rise to the leaves; the structures are much less obvious in sedges and rushes. "Grassologist" terminology.


(Some grasses are actually flat. take a look at a 'sprig' of orchard grass some time and note how the leaf sheaths are folded and make up a flat stem at the base.)

 

[504RP]

Broomsedge bluestem is more the color of wheat. The seedheads (purple colored) do not look like broomsedge . Try looking up vaseygrass and see if it looks more like what you have.

I agree with you. The grass in the picture doesn't look like Broomsedge to me either.