Grasses List |
Grasses Family [Poaceae] |
category
status
flower
inner
stem
stem
26th June 2013, gravel quarry, Darcy Lever, Moses Gate Country Pk. | Photo: © RWD |
Resembles a test-tube cleaning brush, except that the 'brushes' are on opposite sides and not all the way around. The blades of grass belong to this plant, but not the yellow buttercups or its rounded bobbly fruits. |
Mortons Loch, Tayport, Fife. | Photo: © John Brailsford |
A commoner grass, medium, to 60cm. Spikelets short awned on a one-sided stalked spike. |
5th July 2013, Cartmel, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
When in flower numerous violet-coloured anthers dangle on long fine white filaments. |
5th July 2013, Cartmel, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers are cupped by fan-shaped green things. |
26th June 2013, gravel quarry, Darcy Lever, Moses Gate Country Pk. | Photo: © RWD |
The spent anthers later turn brownish. |
26th June 2013, gravel quarry, Darcy Lever, Moses Gate Country Pk. | Photo: © RWD |
Anthers are doubled, joined in the centre, sometimes resembling x-chromosomes. Fertile spikelets are broader. |
26th June 2013, gravel quarry, Darcy Lever, Moses Gate Country Pk. | Photo: © RWD |
Female flowers have short fine white feathery protrusions. |
26th June 2013, gravel quarry, Darcy Lever, Moses Gate Country Pk. | Photo: © RWD |
Sterile spikelets have narrow florets spread out like stiff fingers. |
26th June 2013, gravel quarry, Darcy Lever, Moses Gate Country Pk. | Photo: © RWD |
Covered in numerous green-purplish fruits each tipped by a fine hair-like protrusion. |
26th June 2013, gravel quarry, Darcy Lever, Moses Gate Country Pk. | Photo: © RWD |
The sinewy stalk is sinuous and wiry. |
26th June 2013, gravel quarry, Darcy Lever, Moses Gate Country Pk. | Photo: © RWD |
A single stalk with a grassy leaf (smooth and 2mm wide) emerging from the sheath. |
No relation to :
A very common grass once found throughout the UK, although like many other plants, is on the recession. Habitat includes meadows and pastures. It's only other relative,
|
Cynosurus | cristatus | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Poaceae |
Cynosurus (Dog's-Tails) |
Grasses Family [Poaceae] |