Now the grass is flowering and multitudes of fuzzy grass flower heads catch the sunlight as above.
Long awned wood grass.
Woods grass for several weeks a certain creeping mat forming grass has formed an attractive green carpet on shadowy woods floors where the gardeners have removed underbrush.
New england distribution and.
Long awned wood grass brachyelytrum erectum grass family poaceae description.
Brachyelytrum erectum schreb beauv.
It is more abundant in.
Ligule less than 1 long.
It is easily distinguished however by the long awns on the flowering glumes and the arrangement of the flowers in a one sided spike.
The palea is 7 to 12 mm long hairless and 2 keeled the keels forming 2 teeth at the tip.
Brachyelytrum very distinctive forest understory grasses with slender long awned spikelets.
Notes a compact clump forming grass with short broad leaves.
Southern long awned wood grass is a native grass of moist forests and forest openings.
Awned wheat grass has a short rootstock and therefore grows in tufts like western rye grass.
The rachilla is prolonged as a rather conspicuous bristle back of the palea.
Can work well as an ornamental.
Its broad leaves held perpendicular to the stem can add an interesting texture to either a woodland setting or a perennial border.
This perennial grass is 1 2 tall more or less erect and unbranched.
It is common in the prairie provinces especially outside the semi arid regions.
The culm of each plant is light to medium green terete and mostly hairless.
Florets are surrounded by a pair of bracts lemma and palea the lemma narrowly elliptic the body 9 to 13 mm to inch long tapering to a straight awn 13 to 20 mm to inch long prominently 5 veined variously covered in stiff hairs especially along the veins the longest hairs 5 to 1 mm long.
Leaves 2 6 long 3 8 wide rough above downy on lower surface tapering at both ends flat.
Panicle 2 7 long narrow slender few flowered branches erect 1 4 long.
2003 provide evidence for the presence of two species in eastern north america.
Slender spikes of long awned seeds.
Usually occurs in non wetlands but occasionally in wetlands.