| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Throughout the state, except rare on the Outer Banks. Gaps will be filled in with additional collecting.
Native to Europe; in N.A. widespread. | |
| Abundance | Common to very common throughout, perhaps only uncommon in the Sandhills proper and rare on the Outer Banks. | |
| Habitat | Fields, meadows, fallow fields, pastures, orchards, roadsides, yards, disturbed soils. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting May-October. | |
| Identification | Orchard Grass is probably familiar to most folks, with its stems 2-4 feet tall (perhaps more) and branched inflorescence with many dense, oval spikelets. The lower branches spread widely, the upper are generally appressed. The spikelets are rather compressed laterally. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | FACU link |
| USACE-emp | FACU link |
