Plant ID please
- Thread starter Brisel
- Start date
Wood Barley?
ollie989898
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Looking through my book right now, I'll find it shortly- I've seen this before and remember the inflorescence/seed head. My first thought was that it was a sedge but this was based purely on the leaf and growing habit.
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ollie989898
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Is the stem hollow, or triangular? What sort of shape/length is the ligule?
ollie989898
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I reckon it is false brome or certainly of the Brachypodium (sylvaticum) genus. Could be tor grass but the leaves look huge and wide. According to my book and some google it likes shady places and margins, also can be the yellow-green colour in the photos above.
From my book (Collings guide to grasses, sedges, rushes and ferns):
...very common grass of shady places; a tufted perennial with lax stems to 100cm. Leaves lax, often hairy, to 12mm wide, with sheaths usually hairy. Inflorescence a nodding raceme with awnd and stalked spikelets. Flowering July-August. Confused with Breaded Couch which has hairless leaves and unstalked spikelets. Woods, scrub and shady hedge banks often persisting in the open when scrub is cleared, when the leaves me be yellowish-green...
From my book (Collings guide to grasses, sedges, rushes and ferns):
...very common grass of shady places; a tufted perennial with lax stems to 100cm. Leaves lax, often hairy, to 12mm wide, with sheaths usually hairy. Inflorescence a nodding raceme with awnd and stalked spikelets. Flowering July-August. Confused with Breaded Couch which has hairless leaves and unstalked spikelets. Woods, scrub and shady hedge banks often persisting in the open when scrub is cleared, when the leaves me be yellowish-green...
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Looks like one of the members of the brome grass family of which there are a few.
It does look like False Brome. Thank you
How do you get that up @Brisel are you a member ?
It does look like False Brome. Thank you
No. That was the first result in a Google Search on False Brome.
- Location
- South Molton
Pampas grass?...are you a swinger
