wavy hair-grass
Deschampsia flexuosa
Summary 2
Deschampsia flexuosa, commonly known as wavy hair-grass, is a species of bunchgrass in the grass family widely distributed in Eurasia, Africa, South America, and North America.
Wavy hairgrass is a loosely to densely tufted perennial, up to 80 cm tall, occasionally producing slender rhizomes. Ligule: 1.5-3.5 mm, a blunt membrane. Leaves needle-like, 0.3-0.5 mm wide. Flowers: panicle very open and loose, 6-13 cm long; spikelets 2-flowered, silvery, tinged with purple or brown; glumes - lower 3.5-5 mm long, the upper 4.5-5.5 mm long; lemma 3.9-5.1 mm long; awn 4.5-6.5 mm long, projecting well beyond the glumes. Fruits dispersed by wind and animals; viability in the soil > 1 year.
Distribution 3
Comments 4
Emerging leaf rolled
Dark green leaves 0.3-0.8mm wide, Ligules 0.5-3mm
Native to the Falkland Islands. Tolerant of nutrient poor acid soils. Take care to distinguish from the native hairgrass Deschampsia antarctica
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- (c) Rob Curtis, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Rob Curtis
- Adapted by stuwhiterod from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschampsia_flexuosa
- (c) stuwhiterod, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
- Adapted by stuwhiterod from a work by (c) Kelvin Floyd, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
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iNat Map
| Group | Grass |
|---|---|
| Category | Non Native |
