Photo © Carl Farmer |
Common in grassland, bare wet ground and stony ground, especially on the shore. Spikelets c 1.8-3 mm long. Skye ID: One-flowered spikelets spread out much less far from the stem than in other Bents, relative to height of spike (if spike compacted, spread some outwards by hand), so that the appearance is cylindrical rather than triangular. Maximum width of spread-out spike = 2.5 cm. Picture on left shows open and closed spikes. Other features: A tufted grass with creeping and rooting leafy stem-like stolons. Ligule typically 3-5 mm. Spikelets usually unawned. Spike spreads when flowering but contracts again in fruit. Panicle branches have spikelets almost to the base, whereas in other Skye Agrostis sp they are bare in the lower part. Palea more than half as long as lemma. |
