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Carl Farmer |
Common on roadsides (where perhaps sometimes sown), grassland, waste ground, preferring dry soils. Stems c 20-80 cm tall. Spikelets 4-6 mm long. Glumes c 2-4 mm long, lemmas c 3-4 mm long. Skye ID: Typical Poa spikelets as in pic below. Panicle branches 3-6 together, lowest group usually at least 4, bare towards the base, spikelets clustered together in the same plane towards the end of the branches. Ligule very short, usually < 1 mm high. Other features: Tufted, with creeping underground stems. Stems not or hardly flattened, rather stiff. Stem leaves flat, c 4 mm wide. Base leaves often wiry and folded about the midrib. The species is very variable, partly owing to forms developed in cultivation. |
