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Panicles may be narrow or wide, full or sparce, very large to very small. Yet a person can get to know them by their appearance in many cases. Here are some awned grass panicles with their florets:

Aristida purpurea Purple Three-awn Three-awned Florets	Avena fatua Wild Oats Bent-awned Florets	Bromus diandrus Great Brome Long-awned Spikelets
Hesperostipa neomexicana New Mexican Feathergrass Amazing Long Awns	Heteropogon contortus Tanglehead Twisted Awns	Koeleria macrantha Junegrass Narrow Short-awned Panicle
Bouteloua gracilis Blue Grama Short-awned, Branched	Aristida ternipes Spidergrass Long Stiff Branches	Bromus ciliatus Fringed Brome Awned
Echinochloa muricata American Barnyardgrass Sometimes Awned	Sorghum halepense Johnson Grass Awned or Unawned	Schizachyrium scoparium Little Bluestem Awned with Bent Awns
Bromus tectorum Cheatgrass Straight-Awned	Arrhenatherum elatius Tall Oatgrass Bent-Awned	Vulpia octoflora Sixweeks Fescue Straight-Awned
Cenchrus longispinus Mat Sandbur Burs with Bristles	Aristida schiedeana Single Three-awn Bent-awned	Bouteloua simplex Mat Grama Eyebrowed
Bromus japonicus Japanese Brome Bent-Awned	Piptochaetium pringlei Pringle's Speargrass Long (Bent) Awns	Cenchrus setaceus Fountaingrass Bristled
Muhlenbergia montana Mountain Muhly Bent-Awned	Hesperostipa comata Needle and Thread Long Bent-Awned