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_2015_06_06_Aughton_circ_(nrOrmskirk)_LBS_104p77.jpg)
| 6th June 2015, near Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| To fit in the cameras viewfinder your Author slanted the camera, the spikelets are in the top left-hand corner. The culms are bolt-erect and grow up to 1m high. |
_2015_06_06_Aughton_circ_(nrOrmskirk)_LBS_099p1.jpg)
| 6th June 2015, near Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| Stace 4 says that it is very rarely hairy; usually it is bereft of hairs. However, this specimen does seem to have hairs, abeit short (and possibly smooth to the feel?)... |
_2015_06_06_Aughton_circ_(nrOrmskirk)_LBS_101p45.jpg)
| 6th June 2015, near Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| Has many branches which are longer than the spikelets (apart from those at the bottom, there are several here). |
_2015_06_06_Aughton_circ_(nrOrmskirk)_LBS_099p3.jpg)
| 6th June 2015, near Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| The awns (the long hairs at the tip) are supposed to be straight. It is possibly a month too early in the season for these specimens to have grown more and opened up a bit in order to comply more with the botanical key(?) |
_2015_06_06_Aughton_circ_(nrOrmskirk)_LBS_103p7.jpg)
| 6th June 2015, near Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| Stems arising. |
| Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| Dried spikelets looking a bit like fountain-pen nibs. |
| Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| Stem and ligule. |
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Not to be semantically confused with Broom (Cytisus scoparius) a bushy and much taller plant with yellow flowers.
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 Bromus
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racemosus
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